Srednjaja Akhtuba

Urban-type settlement Srednjaja Akhtuba Средняя Ахтуба Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Volgograd Rajon Sredneachtubinski head Alexei Pastuch Founded 1668 Urban-type settlement since 1959 population 14,431 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 0  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84479 Post Code 404143 License Plate 34, 134 OKATO 18 251 551 Geographical location Coordinates 48 ° 43 '  N , 44 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 42 '45 "  N , 44 ° 51' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Volgograd Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Srednjaja Akhtuba ( Russian Сре́дняя А́хтуба ) is an urban-type settlement in the Volgograd Oblast ( Russia ) with 14,431 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located 25 km as the crow flies east of the Volgograd Oblast Administrative Center and about 10 km southeast of the center of the city ​​of Volschski on the left bank of the Akhtuba , the more than 500 km long left estuary of the Volga .

Srednjaja Akhtuba is the administrative center of Sredneachtubinski Rajon . The settlement is the only locality in the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije).

history

According to local tradition, the settlement is said to have been founded in 1668 by wounded people who had been left there by the Cossack ataman Stenka Razin , who had previously moved to Tsaritsyn . However, the place only received official status in 1758 by the artillery officer and later commander of Tsaritsyn Ivan Zypljatew; At this point in time, 3,000 people are said to have lived there. The place name refers to the river and means Middle Ahtuba.

In 1928 Srednjaja Akhtuba became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajon, and in 1959 it received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	6.012
1959	9,138
1970	11,692
1979	11,059
1989	11,445
2002	13,856
2010	14,486

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

There are food and construction industries in the settlement.

The regional road runs through the village, which leads from Volgograd via Wolschki down the Akhtuba to Astrakhan . In Srednjaja Akhtuba, a side street that crosses the Akhtuba branches off to the small town of Krasnoslobodsk on the left bank of the Volga opposite Volgograd. The nearest train station is in Volzhsky on the Volgograd - Astrakhan line.

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. ↑ Srednjaja Akhtuba on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)

Web links

• Official website of the Raion Administration (Russian)