Swetly (Saratov)

Urban-type settlement Svetly Светлый flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Saratov Urban district Swetly head Sergei Kolesnikov Founded 1964 Earlier names Tatishchevo-5 Urban-type settlement since 1994 population 12,493 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84558 Post Code 412163 License Plate 64, 164 OKATO 63 575 Website www.zatosvetly.ru Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 41 ′  N , 45 ° 38 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 30 "  N , 45 ° 37 ′ 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Saratov Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Swetly ( Russian Све́тлый ) is a "closed" urban-type settlement in the Saratov Oblast ( Russia ) with 12,493 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located about 30 km northwest of the Saratov Oblast Administrative Center and the right bank of the Volga in the eastern part of the Volga Heights .

As Closed administrative-territorial entity (SATO) Swetly forms the independent Stadtkreis Possjolok Swetly, of the territory of the Rajons Tatischtschewski is surrounded. Its administrative seat Tatishchevo is almost immediately to the west.

history

The place was created in 1964 as a military settlement for the strategic missile troops of the Soviet Army (Taman missile division) and initially had the code name Tatishchevo-5 after the nearby settlement. After 1990, complete secrecy was lifted, and in 1994 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement and a closed administrative-territorial structure (SATO) under its current name, from the Russian word for bright.

Population development

year	Residents
2002	12,313
2010	12,493

Note: census data

Personalities

• Yevgeny Mironov (* 1966), actor, born in Saratov, but spent childhood and youth in Tatishchevo-5

traffic

The railway line ( Moscow  -) Michurinsk  - Tambov  - Saratov (stopping point at line kilometer 816 from Moscow, next station in Tatishchevo) runs south of the settlement . There also runs a regional trunk road (formerly R208), which connects Saratov via Atkarsk and Rtishchevo with Kirsanow in the neighboring Tambov Oblast , where there is a connection to the (today's) federal trunk road R208 Tambow - Penza .

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

• Official website of the city council (Russian)