Topchikha

Village Toptschicha Топчиха Federal district Siberia region Altai Rajon Topchikhinsky Founded 1915 Village since 1992 population 8,815 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38552 Post Code 659070 License Plate 22nd OKATO 01 249 862 001 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 49 '  N , 83 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 49 '15 "  N , 83 ° 7' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Altai region

Topchicha ( Russian Топчи́ха ) is a village (selo) in the Altai region ( Russia ) with 8,815 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 70 km as the crow flies southwest of the regional administration center Barnaul on the Obplateau on the river of the same name, which flows into the left Ob tributary Bolshaya Kalmanka (Great Kalmanka) near the place .

Topchicha is the administrative seat of Topchichinsky Rajons and the seat and only locality of the rural municipality Topchichinski selsowet .

history

The village was founded in 1915 in connection with the construction of the railway line Novonikolajevsk (now Novosibirsk ) - - Barnaul Semipalatinsk (Semipalatinsk), the first section of the future Turksib , founded. In 1932 the administrative seat of the Tschistjunski rajon, founded in 1924, was relocated from the village of Tschistjunka, 17 km south-southeast on the left bank of the Alei , to Topchicha, and the Rajon was renamed. From 1966 to 1992 the place had the status of an urban-type settlement .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5265
1959	7861
1970	7840
1979	7852
1989	9069
2002	9375
2010	8815

Note: census data

traffic

Topchicha is located at 307 km of the Novosibirsk - Barnaul - Semei ( Kazakhstan ) railway . The A349 Novoaltaisk  - Barnaul - Rubzowsk  - Kazakh border runs just under 15 km southeast of the town .

sons and daughters of the town

• Viktor Pereversev (* 1958), Russian-Soviet rower and Olympic runner-up

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)