Stepnoye (Saratov, Sowetskoje)
Urban-type settlement
Stepnoe
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Stepnoje ( Russian Степно́е ) is an urban-type settlement in Saratov Oblast ( Russia ) with 13,136 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The settlement is located in the steppe area to the left of the Volga , about 60 km as the crow flies east-southeast of the Saratov Oblast Administrative Center , on the left bank of the Great Karaman .
Stepnoje is the administrative center of the Rajons Sowetskoje . The settlement forms a municipality (gorodskoje posselenije), to which no other localities belong.
history
The place was founded in the 1760s under the name Louis (Russian Луй , Lui ) by Catholic Volga-German colonists. It was one of the "mother colonies" founded by LeRoy and Pictet . The official founding date is July 14, 1767, but according to other information, settlement began as early as 1764–1766. From 1768 the colony also bore the official Russian name Otrogowka. From the end of the 18th century the village belonged to the Ujesd Novousensk of the Saratov governorate , and within this to the village community (Wolost) Mariental (Russian Tonkoschurowka, today Sowetskoje ).
After the establishment of the Volga German Labor Commune in 1918 and the Volga German Republic in 1924, Louis / Otrogowka belonged to this, to the canton of Mariental. After the liquidation of the Volga German Republic in 1941, Mariental was renamed Sovetskoye, and a little later the canton was renamed Sovetskoye; Today's Stepnoye only bore the official Russian name Otrogowka.
With the discovery of oil deposits in the area around 1950, Otrogowka was expanded into a workers' settlement and received its current name in 1953, from the Russian word step for 'steppe'. In 1958 the status of urban-type settlement was given. After the Sovetskoye Raion had been divided up between the neighboring Marx and Fyodorowka Rajons in 1962 , it was restored within its current boundaries as early as 1965, and on January 1, 1967 its administrative seat was moved from Sovetskoye to the now much larger Stepnoje. In the 1970s and 1980s, the place continued to grow with the construction of prefabricated buildings .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1769 | 202 |
1816 | 533 |
1857 | 1,981 |
1897 | 3,208 |
1926 | 2,744 |
1959 | 3,606 |
1970 | 8,335 |
1979 | 11,542 |
1989 | 14,083 |
2002 | 14,140 |
2010 | 13,136 |
Note: from 1897 census data
Attractions
Between 2004 and 2008, the Pantaleons Church ( церковь Пантелеимона , zerkow Pantaleimona ) was established in Stepnoje . The former Catholic church, which was built in 1882 in place of a previous wooden building, has not been preserved.
Economy and Infrastructure
Stepnoje is located in an agricultural area, and there are companies related to oil and gas extraction and storage.
There is a road connection to the regional road R236 from Saratow via Jerschow to the Kazakh border in the direction of Oral - Aqtöbe (also European route 38 ) , which passes just under 15 km south . The European route is also followed by the railway line from Saratov to Oral as well as Astrakhan , where the nearest railway station Zolotaya Step is located (route km 931 from Moscow ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Louis at wolgadeutsche.net
- ↑ a b Stepnoje on the website of the Geographic Institute of the RAN (Russian)
- ↑ Pantaleon's Church Stepnoye at sobory.ru (Russian)
Web links
- Website of the Sovetskoye district administration with Stepnoye (Russian)