Shatki (Nizhny Novgorod)

Urban-type settlement Schatki Шатки Federal district Volga Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Rajon Shatkovsky First mention 1583 Urban-type settlement since 1962 population 9652 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 135  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83190 Post Code 607700 License Plate 52, 152 OKATO 22 257 551 Website www.adm-shatki.ru Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 11 '  N , 44 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 11 '15 "  N , 44 ° 7' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Shatki ( Russian Шатки́ ) is an urban-type settlement in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia with 9,652 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Entrance to Schatki

The place is about 130 km as the crow flies south of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Administrative Center . It is located on the left bank of the right tributary of the Oka, the Tjoscha .

Schatki is the administrative center of the Rajons Schatkowski and seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Rabotchi Possjolok Schatki, also (3 km southwest of the town center) is one of the settlement Pokrovka.

history

The place has been known since 1583 when it was named as Shatkowskije Vorota in connection with one of the Russian Verhaulinien lines . As a result, it developed into a larger village with importance for regional trade.

On June 10, 1929, Schatki became the administrative seat of the newly created Rajons named after him. On March 7, 1962, it received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3363
1959	4847
1970	5592
1979	7934
1989	9469
2002	9879
2010	9652

Note: census data

traffic

Shatki has a station at kilometer 198 of the 1901 railway line ( Rusajewka  -) Krasny Usel  - Arsamas  - Nizhny Novgorod . There, a branch line opened in 1964 branches off to the small town of Pervomaisk, 40 km southwest (55 km by rail, with a connection to the closed city of Sarov ).

The federal trunk road R158 Nizhny Novgorod - Saransk  - Penza  - Saratov runs through the settlement .

Web links

Commons : Schatki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipal administration (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)