Sosnovoborsk (Penza)

Urban-type settlement Sosnovoborsk Сосновоборск flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Sosnovoborsky Earlier names Litvino (until 1940) Urban-type settlement since 1928 population 6546 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 190  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84168 Post Code 442570 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 257 551 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 18 '  N , 46 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '45 "  N , 46 ° 15' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

Sosnovoborsk ( Russian Сосновобо́рск ) is an urban-type settlement in Penza Oblast in Russia with 6546 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is well 80 km straight line east of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Pensa on the right Sura creek Teschnjar few kilometers above the mouth.

Sosnovoborsk is the administrative center of the Rajons Sosnowoborski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Rabotchi possjolok Sosnovoborsk.

history

The place goes back to the villages Neskuchnoye and Surski chutor founded at the latest at the beginning of the 19th century . A cloth factory was founded there in 1839. The villages, now known as Alexandrowskoje and Novonikolskaja , were united under the name Litvino in the 1860s , after the noble Mikhail Litvinov, owner of the cloth factory since 1842.

On July 16, 1928, Litvino became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him as Litwinski and received the status of an urban-type settlement. 1940 received settlement and Rajon its present name (from Russian Sosnovy bor, such as " pine grove").

Population development

year	Residents
1897	641
1939	4053
1959	5820
1970	7521
1979	7624
1989	8087
2002	7397
2010	6546

Note: census data

traffic

Regional road 58K-147 leads to Sosnovoborsk and branches off the federal highway M5 Moscow  - Samara  - Chelyabinsk about 25 km south in Machalino . On this road, about 17 km south of the settlement, the closest train station, Sjusyum, is at km 805 on the route (Moscow -) Ryashsk  - Penza - Syzran . The regional road 58K-257 runs from Sosnovoborsk to the north to the neighboring Nikolsk district center, 50 km away .

Web links

• Official website of the district 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)