Saokski

Urban-type settlement Saokski Заокский Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tula Rajon Saokski head Lyubov Fitissova Founded 1935 Earlier names Unki, Iwanowka Tarusskaja (until 1935) Urban-type settlement since 1970 population 7117 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 240  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48734 Post Code 301000 License Plate 71 OKATO 70 222 551 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 44 '  N , 37 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 44 '0 "  N , 37 ° 24' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tula Oblast

Saokski ( Russian Зао́кский ) is an urban-type settlement in the Tula Oblast in Russia with 7117 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located about 60 km as the crow flies west-northwest of the Tula Oblast Administrative Center , about 10 km from the right bank of the Oka and the border with the Moscow and Kaluga oblasts .

Saokski is the administrative center of Saokski Rajon as well as the seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Rabotschi possjolok Saokski ("Saokski workers' settlement"), which also includes the villages of Nechayevskoye Lesnichestvo (4 km west-southwest), Nikolskoye (north-east adjacent) and Tatarskoye (2 km to the northeast) belong.

history

The settlement goes back to the villages of Unki (known since the 17th century) and Ivanovka . In the 1860s, the Moscow  - Kursk railway line passed and the Ivanovo station opened there. 1894 this was after the nearby, on the left bank of the Oka nearby town Tarusa in Tarusskaja renamed.

A settlement grew around the station, which in 1924 became the administrative seat of the newly created Serpukhovsky rajon , named after the city of Serpukhov , 20 km to the north (the Rajon belonged to the Tula Governorate , while the city of Serpukhov was the seat of a Ujesd of the Moscow Governorate until 1929 ) . After several territorial rearrangements and renaming (on November 29, 1926 in Tarusski rajon, 1929 in Pachomowski rajon ), the raion received its current name Saokski rajon on January 20, 1930 with reference to the location "behind the Oka" (Russian sa Okoi ) from view the largest city in the Serpukhov region.

In 1935 the settlement at the Tarusskaya train station and the village of Ivanovka were united and given the same name as the Rajon. Since September 9, 1970 the place has the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	583
1959	2678
1970	4264
1979	5701
1989	6516
2002	6668
2010	7117

Note: census data

traffic

Tarusskaya railway station in Saoksky

In Saokski, the Tarusskaya station is at kilometer 124 of the Moscow - Kursk - Belgorod  - Kharkiv ( Ukraine ) railway, which opened on this section in 1867 and has been electrified since 1957 .

The regional road 70K-024 passes a little to the east of the settlement, the old route of the Moscow - Belgorod - Ukraine trunk road, which leaves the new M2 route south of Serpuchow and which has been converted into a motorway and reaches it again when the Tula bypass begins. The highway runs about 6 km east of Saokski.

Web links

• Official website of the Rajon on the Oblast Administration website (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)