Sursk

city Sursk Сурск Federal district Volga Oblast Penza Rajon Gorodishchensky Founded 1849 Earlier names Nikolskoje Nikolsky Khutor (1849–1953) City since 1953 surface 5  km² population 7034 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1407 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 220  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84158 Post Code 442300, 442301 License Plate 58 OKATO 56 218 508 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 5 '  N , 45 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '0 "  N , 45 ° 42' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Penza Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Sursk ( Russian Сурск ) is a small town in Penza Oblast ( Russia ) with 7034 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 90 km east of the oblast capital Penza on the left bank of the Sura , a right tributary of the Volga .

Sursk belongs to the Gorodishchensky Rajon and is located about 20 km south of its administrative seat, the small town of Gorodishche .

The city is located near the railway Ryazhsk -Pensa- Sysran (Station Assejewskaja ).

history

A place in the place of today's town was established near the older village of Nikolskoye in 1849 under the name of Nikolsky Khutor in connection with the establishment of an important weaving mill.

In 1928 the place became an urban-type settlement . During the Second World War , a machine factory from Vyshny Volotschok in the western part of the Soviet Union was relocated to Nikolsky Khutor. In August 1953 the place was given city rights under its current name (after the river).

Population development

year	Residents
1897	829
1926	3,566
1939	7,222
1959	11,608
1970	10,036
1979	9,839
1989	9,920
2002	7,981
2010	7,034

Note: census data

economy

The town-building company is the weaving mill Surskaja manufaktura (formerly Textile Combine ). The canvases for the Panorama Stalingrad Battle in Volgograd (1982) and for the Peasants' War panorama in Bad Frankenhausen ( Germany ) were woven in the weaving mill .

There are also companies in the food industry.

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)

Web links

• Short story (russian)
• Sursk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)