Werch-Sujetka
Village
Verkh-Sujetka
Верх-Суетка
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Werch-Sujetka ( Russian Ве́рх-Суе́тка ) is a village (selo) in the Altai region ( Russia ) with 2224 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The village is about 250 km in a straight line west of the regional administration center Barnaul in Kulunda steppes at the mouth of the river into the Makaricha Sujetka which km south-west in the endorheic about 35 Lake Kulundinskoye flows.
Verkh-Sujetka is the administrative seat of the Rajons Sujetski as well as the seat of the rural community Verkh-Sujetski selsowet, to which besides the village Verkh-Sujetka the settlements Beregovoy, Oktyabrski and Ossinowski belong.
history
The village was founded in 1804. The name means something like "Ober-Sujetka" after the river ; the village of Nizhnyaya Sujetka ("Nieder-Sujetka") is about 13 km downriver in a southwesterly direction. After Verkh-Sujetka first became the center of a raion in 1924, it was dissolved in 1963, but was re-established in 1989 from parts of the Blagoveschensky and Khabarsky rajons .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1959 | 3,454 |
2002 | 2,600 |
2010 | 2.224 |
Note: census data
traffic
Verkh-Sujetka is located on the road coming from the neighboring Rajon center of Bajewo to the east , which leads further north past Lake Kulunda towards Slavgorod .
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)