Smijowka (Oryol, Sverdlovsky)

Urban-type settlement Smijowka Змиёвка Federal district Central Russia Oblast Oryol Rajon Sverdlovsky First mention 1868 Urban-type settlement since 1959 population 5976 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 220  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48645 Post Code 303320 License Plate 57 OKATO 54 252 551 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 40 ′  N , 36 ° 23 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 40 ′ 10 "  N , 36 ° 22 ′ 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Oryol Oblast

Smijowka ( Russian Змиёвка ) is an urban-type settlement in the Oryol Oblast in Russia with 5976 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 40 km in a straight line to the southeast of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Oryol , a few kilometers west of Suscha -Nebenflusses Nerutsch .

Smijowka is the administrative center of the Rajons Swerdlowski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Smijowka.

history

The place was created in 1868 in connection with the construction of the Moscow  - Kursk  - Kharkov railway line , when a station was built there. It was named after the owner of the land there Smijow and the village Smijowo a good 15 km northwest , where his country estate was located.

In 1920 the administrative seat of a Volost des Ujesds Orjol was moved from the village of Bogoduchowo, ten kilometers to the west, to Smijowka. The Volost was named a little later after the revolutionary and politician Jakow Sverdlov and on July 30, 1928 it was converted into a Rajon of the same name.

During the Second World War , Smijowka was occupied by the German Wehrmacht at the end of October 1941, was near the front for a long time on the northern flank of the "Kursk Arch" and was finally recaptured on July 24, 1943 by the Red Army as part of the Oryol Operation .

On May 5, 1959, the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2152
1959	3139
1970	4996
1979	5630
1989	6295
2002	6373
2010	5976

Note: census data

traffic

Smijowka has a station at kilometer 425 of the railway line Moscow - Kursk - Kharkiv ( Ukraine ), which opened on this section in 1868 and has been electrified since 1959 .

A few kilometers to the northeast the federal highway R119 passes Oryol - Lipetsk  - Tambov . Regional road 54K-7 branches off in a southerly direction, following the railway line to the neighboring district center Glasunowka and then heading west until it reaches the federal trunk road M2 not far from the border with Kursk Oblast .

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)