Stekolny (Magadan)

Urban-type settlement Stekolny Стекольный Federal district far East Oblast Magadan Rajon Hasynsky Founded 1941 Urban-type settlement since 1953 population 2023 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 230  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 41342 Post Code 686134 License Plate 49 OKATO 44 219 563 Geographical location Coordinates 60 ° 3 ′  N , 150 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 60 ° 2 ′ 30 "  N , 150 ° 44 ′ 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Magadan Oblast

Stekolny ( Russian Стеко́льный ) is an urban-type settlement in the Magadan Oblast ( Russia ) with 2023 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 50 km as the crow flies north of the Magadan Oblast Administrative Center on the left bank of the Khassyn River .

Stekolny belongs to Rajon Chassynski and is located 14 km southwest of the administrative center of Palatka . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Stekolny.

history

The settlement was founded in 1941 in connection with the construction of a glass factory; the place name is therefore derived from the Russian steklo for glass . Since 1953 Stekolny has had the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	3760
1970	3020
1979	4164
1989	4843
2002	2260
2010	2023

Note: census data

traffic

The R504 Kolyma trunk road passes east of the settlement and connects Magadan with Nizhny Bestjach near Jakutsk (previously M56 , number still in use until 2017).

Stekolny was on the Magadan - Palatka narrow-gauge railway , which was built in the 1940s , but was closed again in 1956.

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)