Svetscha

Urban-type settlement Svetscha Свеча Federal district Volga Oblast Kirov Rajon Svetschinsky Founded 1903 Urban-type settlement since 1945 population 4760 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83358 Post Code 612040 License Plate 43 OKATO 33 234 551 Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 17 '  N , 47 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 16 '45 "  N , 47 ° 30' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kirov Oblast

Swetscha ( Russian Свеча ) is an urban-type settlement in Kirov Oblast in Russia with 4760 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 130 km as the crow flies west-southwest of the Kirow Oblast Administrative Center on the eponymous Svetscha River, which flows over the Juma to the Pischma .

Svetscha is the administrative center of Svetschinsky Rajons and the seat of the municipality of Svetschinskoje gorodskoje posselenije. This also includes 21 villages and the surrounding area, only one of which - Samoulki, immediately to the west - has over 500 and six more over 100 inhabitants (as of 2010).

history

The place was built in 1903 in connection with the construction of the railway line Saint Petersburg  - Vologda  - Vyatka , the part of the later Trans-Siberian Railway was. The station built there with the surrounding settlement was named after the river.

On June 10, 1929 Svetscha became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. Since 1945 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1545
1959	4387
1970	4794
1979	5203
1989	5727
2002	5127
2010	4760

Note: census data

traffic

Svetscha has a train station at kilometer 817 (from Moscow ) on the trunk line of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which opened on this section in 1906 and has been electrified since 1969 . Svetscha is the last station belonging to the Severnaya schelesnaja doroga (Northern Railway) area; to the east is the network of the Gorkovskaya schelesnaja doroga (Gorkier Railway).

South of the settlement runs the regional road 33K-004 following the railway line, which, coming from Kotelnitsch , 50 km to the east , continues via the neighboring Leninskoye Rajon center to the 60 km distant border of Kostroma Oblast , and from there in the direction of Ponasyrevo  - Sharja .

Web links

• Official website of the district administration (Russian)

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)