Svetly Jar (Volgograd)
Urban-type settlement
Swetly Jar
Светлый Яр
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Swetly Jar ( Russian Све́тлый Яр ) is an urban-type settlement in the Volgograd Oblast ( Russia ) with 12,537 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The settlement is a good 30 km southeast of the center of the Volgograd Oblast Administrative Center and just under 10 km from its southeastern city limits on the right bank of the 1.7 km wide Volga .
Svetly Jar is the administrative center of Svetlojarski Rajons and the seat of the municipality Svetlojarskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the settlements Krasnoflotski (4 km west) and Sadowy (8 km west) as well as the hamlets (chutor) Barbaschi (6 km north-west) on the other side of the Volga Gromki (8 km east-northeast) belong.
history
The place was founded before 1793 as a fishing settlement, initially under the name Lutschki. Soon afterwards it was given its current name, from Russian swetly for hell and jar for a steep river bank.
In 1950 the settlement became the administrative seat of the Krasnoarmeiski rajon, which had existed since 1928 and whose original eponymous center Krasnoarmeisk was incorporated into what was then Stalingrad in 1931. In 1959 Swetly Jar received urban-type settlement status, and in 1960 the Rajon was renamed after the settlement.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1959 | 3,806 |
1970 | 5,039 |
1979 | 10,251 |
1989 | 11.307 |
2002 | 13,102 |
2010 | 12,537 |
Note: census data
traffic
The federal highway R22 Kaspi (formerly M6) runs south of the settlement, which begins south of Moscow and runs to Volgograd and from there down the right Volga River to Astrakhan .
A freight connection line ends at an industrial park and fuel store between Svetly Yar and Krasnoflotski , which branches off from the Volgograd - Tichorezkaya line at Sarepta station (in the Volgograd urban area) .
sons and daughters of the town
- Julija Saripowa (* 1986), obstacle and long distance runner
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)
- ↑ Swetly Jar on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)