Verkhnyaya Khava

Village Verkhnyaya Khava Верхняя Хава coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Voronezh Rajon Verkhnechawski head Boris Belyayev First mention 1690 population 8,154 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 160  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47343 Post Code 396110 License Plate 36, 136 OKATO 20 211 824 001 Website Verhava.ru Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 50 ′  N , 39 ° 57 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 20 "  N , 39 ° 56 ′ 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Voronezh Oblast

Verkhnyaya Chawa ( Russian Ве́рхняя Ха́ва ) is a village (selo) in the Voronezh Oblast ( Russia ) with 8154 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is located a good 50 kilometers as the crow flies northeast of the Oblast capital Voronezh on the upper reaches of the eponymous river Chava , which flows over the Usman to Voronezh .

Verkhnyaya Chava is the administrative center of the Rajons Werchnechawski and seat of the rural community Werchnechawskoje selskoje posselenije, (km 8 east) which also includes the villages Bogoslowka, Mokruscha (7 km southeast), Talowaja (4 km south) and Wassiljewka Pervaya (13 km southeast) and the Settlement (possjolok) Chernyachi (4 km northeast) belong.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1690. Its name after the river stands for "Upper Chawa". From 1727 it belonged to the Ujesd Voronezh of the Voronezh governorate (between 1779 and 1796 governor of Voronezh) and became the seat of a Volost .

In 1923 Verkhnaya Chawa came to the enlarged Ujesd Usman , handed over by the Tambov Governorate to the Voronezh Governorate , before it became the administrative seat of a Rajon named after him on July 30, 1928. From 1963 to 1965 the Rajon was temporarily dissolved.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	4940
1939	7047
1959	5708
1970	6727
1979	8186
1989	8937
2002	7980
2010	8154

Note: census data

traffic

In Verkhnyaya Chawa, the Chawa station is located at kilometer 26 of the railway line opened in 1897 from the Grafskaya station (near the Krasnolesny settlement ) on the Moscow  - Voronezh - Rostov-on-Don line to Anna .

The 20K-W19 regional road runs through the village, a cross-connection between the 20K-W18 running west from Novaya Usman to the border of Lipetsk Oblast (from there to Usman) and the 15 km south-east passing federal highway R193 from Voronezh to Tambov .

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 : Verkhnyaya Chawa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)