Urasowo (Belgorod)

Urban-type settlement Urasovo (Belgorod) Urazovo Federal district Central Russia Oblast Belgorod Rajon Waluiki population 6982 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 73  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47236 Post Code 309970 License Plate 31 OKATO 14 220 560 Website http://urazovoadm.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 5 '  N , 38 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '43 "  N , 38 ° 2' 53"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Belgorod Oblast

Urasowo ( Russian Уразово ) is an urban-type settlement in Belgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 6982 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is located 12 km from the Russian-Ukrainian border , 16 km south of the Waluiki Rajon center and about 140 km southeast of the Oblast capital Belgorod . It is located at 73  m altitude on the left bank of the Oskil , a 472 km long left tributary of the Siversky Donets . Urasowo has a train station on the Waluiki – Kupyansk railway line .

Orthodox Church of the Sign of the Mother of God in Urasovo

history

After the Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn received land in Sloboda-Ukraine , he had 3000 of his serfs set up the Urasowo settlement in 1728. In the 19th century, Urasowo was an industrial settlement with more residents than Waluiki. In the village there is the church of John the Baptist, built at the end of the 19th century, and the Church of the Sign of the Mother of God, whose foundation stone was laid in 1750 and which is now one of the oldest churches in the region.

sons and daughters of the town

• Walentyn Kostenko (1895-1960); Composer, musicologist, music critic and educator
• Vladimir Pavlovich Basov (1923-1987); Actor, film director and screenwriter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Urasovo local history on the official website of the village; accessed on July 31, 2019 (Russian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Urasowo on tochka-na card ; accessed on July 31, 2019 (Russian)