Tamala (Pensa)
Urban-type settlement
Tamala
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Tamala ( Russian Тамала ) is an urban-type settlement in the Oblast Penza in Russia with 7476 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 140 km as the crow flies southwest of the administrative center of Penza, not far from the source of the Tamala, a right tributary of the Chopjor . Tamala is not far from the borders with the neighboring oblasts Saratov and Tambov .
The settlement is the administrative center of the Rajons Tamalinski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Rabotchi possjolok Tamala.
history
The place was created in 1870 in connection with the construction of the Tambov - Saratov railway line of the then Ryazan-Uralsk Railway, when a station named after the river and a nearby village was built there.
Until the 1920s, the village and station settlement of Tamala grew together. On July 16, 1928, the place became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after him. In 1966 Tamala received urban-type settlement status.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1926 | 1825 |
1939 | 4191 |
1959 | 4590 |
1970 | 6670 |
1979 | 8109 |
1989 | 8577 |
2002 | 8062 |
2010 | 7476 |
Note: census data
traffic
Tamala has a station at kilometer 612 of the railway line Moscow - Ryazan - Tambov - Saratov opened on this section (and continuously) in 1871 .
Six kilometers to the south there is a connection to the regional road Kirsanov - Rtishchevo - Saratov, which follows the railway line . To the north, a regional road leads to Belinski, 50 km away, on the federal trunk road R208 Tambow - Penza, and to the north-east, a road to the regional road Kamenka - Bekowo, 40 km away .
Web links
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)