Wikulovo (Tyumen)

Village Wikulovo Викулово Federal district Ural Oblast Tyumen Rajon Wikulowski head Vyacheslav Shadrin Founded 1691 population 6,995 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 70  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 34557 Post Code 627570 License Plate 72 OKATO 71 215 812 001 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 49 '  N , 70 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 49 '0 "  N , 70 ° 36' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Tyumen Oblast

Wikulowo ( Russian Ви́кулово ) is a village (selo) in the Tyumen Oblast in Russia with 6,995 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 300 km as the crow flies east of the Tyumen Oblast Administrative Center in the West Siberian lowlands . It is located on the left bank of the Irtysh -Nebenflusses Ishim .

Wikulowo is the administrative center of the Rajons Wikulowski and seat of the rural community Wikulowskoje selskoje posselenije, among which also the 5 km southwest situated village Tschebaklei.

history

Gerhard Friedrich Müller , who traveled to Siberia as part of the Second Kamchatka Expedition in the 1730s , stated 1691 as the year the village was founded . After its founder with the family name Wikulow, it was first named Wikulowa ("Wikulows (village)"); It was not until the 20th century that the current form became established.

Since November 1923 Wikulowo has been the administrative seat of a Rajon named after him.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1026
1939	3216
1959	4097
1970	4750
1979	6138
1989	6751
2002	6997
2010	6995

Note: census data

traffic

The regional road 71N-601 leads to Wikulowo, which branches off the federal highway R402 Tyumen - Omsk at about 60 km south of the neighboring district Abatskoye as 71N-101 and follows the left bank of the Ishim. From Wikulowo it continues as 71N-603 down the Ishim to the border of the Omsk Oblast and from there to the Ust-Ishim Rajon center at the mouth of the river. From the southwest, Wikulowo is reached by the 71N-605, which also starts on the R402 in Ischim, a good 100 km away , and leads through the neighboring district of Bolshoye Sorokino to the west . Ischim is also the closest train station to the Trans-Siberian Railway . In an easterly direction, the 71N-604 crosses the Ishim River in Wikulowo and opens up the eastern part of the Rajon to the village of Katai .

Web links

• Official website of the district 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)