Spirowo (Tver, Spirowski)

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Urban-type settlement
Spirowo
Спирово
Federal district Central Russia
Oblast Tver
Rajon Spirowski
First mention 1545
Urban-type settlement since 1932
population 6,267 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center 180  m
Time zone UTC + 3
Telephone code (+7) 48276
Post Code 171170
License Plate 69
OKATO 28 252 551
Geographical location
Coordinates 57 ° 25 '  N , 35 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 25 '15 "  N , 34 ° 59' 30"  E
Spirowo (Tver, Spirowski) (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Spirowo (Tver, Spirowski) (Tver Oblast)
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Location in Tver Oblast

Spirowo ( Russian Спи́рово ) is an urban-type settlement in Tver Oblast in Russia with 6,267 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 80 km as the crow flies northwest of the Tver Oblast Administrative Center on the Malaya Tigma (Little Tigma), a left tributary of the eight kilometers to the west flowing Twerza .

Spirowo is the administrative center of the Rajons Spirowski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Spirowo.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1545. It gained importance in the 1840s with the passing of the first long-distance railway line of the Russian Empire , the Nikolaibahn from Saint Petersburg to Moscow, when a larger station was built there. In 1886 a glass factory was built.

On July 12, 1929 Spirowo became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1932 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year Residents
1939 5239
1959 6418
1970 6706
1979 6450
1989 6896
2002 6859
2010 6267

Note: census data

traffic

Spirowo has a station at kilometer 398 of the Saint Petersburg - Moscow railway line, which opened in 1851 and has been electrified on this section since 1962 .

The regional road 28K-1549 connects to the federal trunk road M10 , which runs a good ten kilometers to the south-west and also connects Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The railway line to the southwest is followed by a road to Lichoslavl (initially as 28N-1574).

Web links

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)