Ust-Kalmanka
Village
Ust-Kalmanka
Усть-Калманка
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Ust-Kalmanka ( Russian Усть-Калма́нка ) is a village (selo) in the Altai region ( Russia ) with 6371 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The town is located 140 km in a straight line south of the regional administration center Barnaul in Voraltaiebene (Predaltaiskaja Ravnina) , on the right bank of whether -Nebenflusses Tscharysch at the confluence of its right tributary Kalmanka. The place name therefore means "Kalmanka estuary".
Ust-Kalmanka is the administrative center of the Rajons Ust-Kalmanski and seat of the rural community of Ust-Kalmanski selsowet, next to the village of Ust-Kalmanka nor the settlement Nowy Tscharysch belongs to the.
history
The village was founded in 1732 by the Old Orthodox who fled central Russia . In 1935 Ust-Kalmanka became the center of a Rajon.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 6313 |
1959 | 5830 |
1970 | 6524 |
1979 | 6653 |
1989 | 6927 |
2002 | 6712 |
2010 | 6371 |
Note: census data
Buildings
At Ust-Kalmanka, on the left bank of the Charysch, there has been a transmission mast for the transmission of radio and television programs since 1979. With a height of 350 meters, it is one of the tallest structures in the Asian part of Russia.
traffic
There is a road connection in a northerly direction to Aleisk, a good 60 km away (where the nearest train station is also) on the A349 Novoaltaisk - Barnaul - Rubzowsk - Kazakh border. To the south this road continues into the already in Altai Mountains located Rajonzentrum Tscharyschskoje (not to be confused with a few kilometers north of Ust-Kalmanka on the other side of the Tscharysch nearby village of the same name , through which the road runs also and where it crosses the river) . Local roads branch off not far from Ust-Kalmanka from this road in a north-easterly direction to the neighboring district center of Ust-Charyschskaya Pristan on the Ob near the mouth of the Charysch and to the east in the direction of Petropavlovskoje on the Anui .
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)