Verkh-Chebula
Urban-type settlement
Verkh-Chebula
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Verkh-Chebula ( Russian Верх-Чебула́ ) is an urban-type settlement in the Kemerovo Oblast in Russia with 5060 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is a good 120 km as the crow flies northeast of the Kemerovo Oblast Administrative Center and 20 km south of the city of Mariinsk in the northern foreland of the Kuznetsk Alatau . It is located on the left bank of the Chebula, a left tributary of the Kija , about 15 km above the mouth.
Verkh-Tschebula is the administrative center Rajons Tschebulinski and seat of the municipality posselenije Verkh-Tschebulinskoje gorodskoje, (km 8 north) which also includes the villages Nowokasanka, Orlowo-Rosowo (6 km northeast), Petropawlowka (9 km southwest) and Pokrovka (8 km south-southeast) belong.
history
The place was founded in 1762, according to tradition, by a Katorga prisoner with the family name Chuguev who fled the Urals . The first settlers came from the provinces of Kazan , Oryol , Ryazan and Tambov .
On September 4, 1924, the place was the administrative seat of the newly created Verkh-Chebulinsky rajon, after its temporary connection in 1930 to the Mariinsky rajon again from 1935 as a Tschebulinsky rajon (with interruption and renewed connection to the Mariinsky rajon 1963-1966). Verkh-Chebula has had the status of an urban-type settlement since 1974.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 2843 |
1959 | 3176 |
1970 | 3384 |
1979 | 4417 |
1989 | 5474 |
2002 | 5357 |
2010 | 5060 |
Note: census data
traffic
To the west, Verkh-Chebula is bypassed by the federal highway R255 Sibir (formerly M53), which runs from Novosibirsk to Irkutsk and is part of the transcontinental road link. The nearest train station is in Mariinsk on the Trans-Siberian Railway .
Web links
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)