Uzlovaya

city uzlovaya Узловая flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Tula Rajon Uzlovaya mayor Yuri Lobastov Founded 1873 City since 1938 surface 33  km² population 55,282 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1675 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 220  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48731 Post Code 301600-301649 License Plate 71 OKATO 70 428 Website mo-uzlovaya.ru Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 59 ′  N , 38 ° 10 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 38 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tula Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Uslowaja ( Russian Узлова́я ) is a city with 55,282 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Tula Oblast in Russia . It is the administrative center of a Rajon of the Oblast and is 44 km southeast of the regional capital Tula .

history

Uslowaya factory

The place was created in the 1870s when the railway line from Syzran to Vyazma was built . At the intersection of this line with a branch line from Moscow (which was extended into the Donets Basin in the 1930s ), the station settlement Khrushchevskaya ( Хрущёвская ) was created in 1873 , which four years later was named Uslowaja - in German junction station . In 1938 Uslowaja received city rights, at the same time lignite deposits were developed in the area .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	17,936
1959	53,912
1970	61,945
1979	64,752
1989	64,889
2002	59,763
2010	55,282

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

There are several industrial companies in the city today: a mechanical engineering factory, a plastics factory, and textile and food companies. In the surrounding area mainly agriculture is practiced; the lignite mining was stopped at Uslowaja in the 1990s.

The M4 trunk road runs a few kilometers west of the city , and Uslowaya is still a railway junction and has a long-distance train station.

sons and daughters of the town

• Avraami Pavlovich Sawenjagin (1901–1956), metallurgist and politician
• Soja Voskressenskaja (1907–1992), children's book author
• Lidija Boldyrewa (1934–1991), national volleyball player
• Shamil Chissamutdinow (* 1950), wrestler

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)

Web links

Commons : Uslowaja  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Unofficial web portal of the city (Russian)
• Uslowaja on mojgorod.ru (Russian)