Staraya Kulatka

Urban-type settlement Staraja Kulatka Старая Кулатка flag Federal district Volga Oblast Ulyanovsk Rajon Starokulatkinski Earlier names Kulatka Urban-type settlement since 1968 population 5685 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 110  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84249 Post Code 433940 License Plate 73, 173 OKATO 73 239 551 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 44 '  N , 47 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 43 '45 "  N , 47 ° 36' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ulyanovsk Oblast

Staraja Kulatka ( Russian Ста́рая Кула́тка ) is an urban-type settlement in the Ulyanovsk Oblast in Russia with 5685 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 180 km as the crow flies south-southwest of the Ulyanovsk Oblast Administrative Center on the Kulatka, a right tributary of the right Volga tributary Tereschka .

Staraya Kulatka is the administrative center of Starokulatkinski Rajon and the seat of the municipality of Starokulatnenskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the villages of Bakehievka (10 km east-southeast), Novaya Jandowka (4 km north-west), Novaya Kulatka (9 km south-west), Novyje Zimnitsy (7 km south-west) , Staraja Jandowka (12 km northwest), Tschuwaschskaja Kulatka (8 km southeast) and Ust-Kulatka (16 km southeast) and the hamlet of Kolzowka (14 km southeast) belong.

history

The place was founded at the beginning of the 18th century by Tatars  - who still make up the majority of the population in the municipality and in the Rajon - and was initially only called Kulatka (from Tatar Кулаткы, Qulatqı ). As a result he belonged to the Ujesd Chwalynsk of the Saratov Governorate and became the seat of a Volost . With the emergence of the village Nowaja Kulatka ("New Kulatka") the place received its current name ("Old Kulatka").

In 1928 Staraja Kulatka became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1968 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	5212
1939	4679
1959	4350
1970	5193
1979	5494
1989	5925
2002	6075
2010	5685

Note: census data

traffic

Staraya Kulatka is located on the regional road 73K-1427, which branches off south of Ulyanovsk from the Syzran  - Ulyanovsk branch of the M5 federal trunk road, passing through the district centers of Kuzovatovo , Novospasskoye (on the M5 main route) and Radishchevo , continuing to the border with Saratov Oblast , there in the direction of the federal trunk road R228 Syzran - Saratov  - Volgograd near Chwalynsk, about 35 km away . In a westerly direction in Staraya Kulatka the 73K-1439 branches off to the neighboring Rajon center Pavlovka .

On the road to Chwalynsk, 20 km southeast in Popovka on the Syzran - Saratov - Volgograd route, the nearest train station is located.

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)