Sheksna (Vologda)

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Urban-type settlement
Sheksna
Cheksna
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Federal district Northwest Russia
Oblast Vologda
Rajon Sheksna
Founded 1951
Earlier names Nikolskoye
Urban-type settlement since 1954
population 20,953 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center 110  m
Time zone UTC + 3
Telephone code (+7) 81751
Post Code 162560-162562
License Plate 35
OKATO 19 258 551
Geographical location
Coordinates 59 ° 12 '  N , 38 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 59 ° 12 '30 "  N , 38 ° 30' 15"  E
Scheksna (Vologda) (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Sheksna (Vologda) (Vologda Oblast)
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Location in Vologda Oblast
List of large settlements in Russia

Scheksna ( Russian Шексна́ ) is an urban-type settlement in the Vologda Oblast ( Russia ) with 20,953 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located about 75 kilometers as the crow flies west of the Vologda Oblast Administrative Center and 30 kilometers northeast of the city ​​of Cherepovets on the left bank of the Sheksna tributary of the Volga .

Sheksna is the administrative center of the Sheksna Rajons of the same name .

history

From 1951 arose in connection with the expansion of the existing since the beginning of the 19th century Marie-channel system for Volga-Baltic Waterway and the establishment of Scheksna Dam with hydroelectric power plant ( Scheksninskaja GES Nikolskoye, 1958) near the old village, a working class neighborhood.

In 1954, the settlement, together with the incorporated village, was given the status of an urban-type settlement under its current name after the river. The village of Nikolskoye and from 1954 the Sheksna settlement were the administrative seat of the Prischeksninski rajon from 1927 until its dissolution in 1959. The canal was completed in 1964, the hydroelectric power station in 1966. On January 12, 1965, Scheksna again became the administrative seat of the Rajon, which was now designated as Scheksninski rajon again in changed borders .

Population development

year Residents
1939 1,638
1959 8,197
1970 8,189
1979 13,179
1989 15,928
2002 21,615
2010 20,953

Note: census data (1939 Nikolskoye village)

Economy and Infrastructure

In addition to the hydropower plant with an output of 84  megawatts, there are companies in Scheksna in the wood processing, food and light industries.

The settlement is situated on the railway line Saint Petersburg  - Vologda - Bui (kilometer 512) on this section of the Northern Railway is operated, as well as on the highway A114 that of Vologda to Novaya Ladoga results in Saint Petersburg.

At Scheksna there are lock systems that were last reconstructed in 1990 in the course of the Volga-Baltic Sea Canal.

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)
  2. a b Scheksna on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)

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