Torbejewo (Mordovia)

Urban-type settlement Torbejewo Торбеево ( Russian ) Тарбей ( Mokshan ) Federal district Volga republic Mordovia Rajon Torbeevsky head Ivan Setyaev First mention 1667 Urban-type settlement since 1959 population 9373 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 195  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83456 Post Code 431030-431031 License Plate 13, 113 OKATO 89 254 551 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 5 '  N , 43 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 4 '30 "  N , 43 ° 14' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Situation in Mordovia

Torbejewo ( Russian Торбе́ево , Mokshan Тарбей ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Mordovia in Russia with 9,373 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is almost 130 km as the crow flies west-southwest of the republic capital Saransk, not far from the border with Penza Oblast . It is located at the source of the Windrei, a right tributary of the Parza Wad tributary .

Torbejewo is the administrative center of Torbejewski Rajons and the seat of the municipality Torbejewskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the villages of Masilug (2 km northwest) and Schukulug (2 km north).

history

The place was first mentioned in 1667 under the Russified name Tarbejewka , derived from the Turkic name Tarbei.

On July 16, 1928 Torbejewo was the administrative seat of the newly created Rajons named after him. In 1959 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3760
1959	4644
1970	7010
1979	7424
1989	8924
2002	9351
2010	9373

Note: census data

traffic

Torbejewo has a train station at kilometer 481 of the Moscow  - Ryazan  - Syzran railway line, which opened on this section in 1894 and has been electrified since 1960 . To the northwest, the place is bypassed by a connecting line (formerly R180) of the federal trunk road M5 , which branches off about 20 km southwest of the main route Moscow - Samara  - Chelyabinsk and continues via Krasnoslobodsk to the republic capital Saransk.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Michail Dewjatajew (1917–2002), fighter pilot and war hero

Web links

• Web presence of the Rajon on the official republic website (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)