Solonezhnoye

Village Soloneschnoje Солонешное Federal district Siberia region Altai Rajon Solonezhensky Founded 1828 population 4441 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 420  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38594 Post Code 659690 License Plate 22nd OKATO 01 243 850 001 Website soloneshenskoe.ru Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 39 ′  N , 84 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 30 ″  N , 84 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Altai region

Soloneschnoje ( Russian Солоне́шное ) is a village (selo) in the Altai region ( Russia ) with 4441 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located about 190 km as the crow flies south-south-east of the regional administrative center of Barnaul and 115 km south-west of Biysk, the part of the region that is occupied by the northern foothills of the eponymous Altai . The mountains in the vicinity of Solonezhnoye have a low mountain character with heights of up to about 1000  m , but already about 20 km south of the village with the summit of Butachikha, 1949  m are reached. Solonezhnoye is located on the right bank of the Ob tributary Anui , at the confluence of the small right tributary Solonezhnaya.

It is the administrative seat of the Solonezhensky Rajons as well as the seat of the rural community Soloneschenski selsowet, which includes the villages of Iskra, Medvedevka, Talmenka, Teleschicha and Cheremshanka in addition to the village of Solonezhnoye.

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  On the outskirts of Solonezhnoye in May

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  Road towards Smolenskoye in the Solonezhnaya Valley

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  Former airport building

history

The village was founded in 1828 by resettlers from the Altai foothills. In 1924 Solonezhnoye became the center of a Rajon.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3992
1959	3560
1970	3673
1979	4090
1989	4623
2002	4753
2010	4441

Note: census data

traffic

Road connection exists in a north-easterly direction to Smolenskoye on the regional road R368 Biysk - Belokuricha , in a north-westerly direction to the neighboring district center of Petropavlowkoye . In a southerly direction, a road continues up the Anui, reaches the Altai Republic and over the 1313  m high Keleiski Pass and Jakonur finally Ust-Kan on the regional road R373.

From the 1950s to 1994 Solonezhnoye owned a small local airport for connections to Barnaul and Biysk.

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)

Web links

• Municipality website (Russian)