Verkhovye (Oryol)

Urban-type settlement Verkhovye Verhovie flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Oryol Rajon Verkhovsky head Nikolai Dubatovkin First mention 1815 Urban-type settlement since 1958 population 7173 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 265  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48676 Post Code 303720 License Plate 57 OKATO 54 208 551 Website Verhovadm.ru Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 49 '  N , 37 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 48 '45 "  N , 37 ° 14' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Oryol Oblast

Verkhovye ( Russian Верхо́вье ) is an urban-type settlement in the Oryol Oblast in Russia with 7173 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is located around 80 km in a straight line east-southeast of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Oryol .

Werchowje is the administrative center of the Rajons Werchowski and seat and only town of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Werchowje.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1815. An economic boom came with the passing of the Orjol - Jelez railway in the 1860s.

In 1928 Verkhovye became the administrative seat of the newly created Rajons named after him. During the Second World War , the place was captured by the German Wehrmacht on November 14, 1941 , but was recaptured by the Red Army on December 19 .

On January 20, 1958, the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2564
1959	3729
1970	6226
1979	7318
1989	8983
2002	8071
2010	7173

Note: census data

traffic

Verkhovye has a train station at kilometer 92 of the Oryol - Jelez - Lipetsk  - Grjasi railway line, which opened on this section in 1870 . In a southerly direction, a line branches off via Liwny to Possjolok imeni Lenina ( Marmyschi station ) in Kursk Oblast . This was opened in 1871 to Liwny as one of the first longer narrow-gauge railways in the Russian Empire , but at the end of the 1890s it was converted from the original Cape gauge to broad gauge and extended to Marmyschi.

Regional road 54K-6 runs through the settlement from Salegoschtsch to Khomutowo and Krasnaya Sarja . In a south-westerly direction there is a connection to the federal trunk road R119 Oryol - Lipetsk  - Tambov near Pokrovskoye via the 54K-4 , as well as via the 54K-5, which follows the railway line to Livny.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)

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)