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Urban-type settlement Week toga Вохтога Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Vologda Rajon Gryazovetsky head Elena Uchanova Urban-type settlement since 1960 population 6375 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81755 Post Code 162040 License Plate 35 OKATO 19 224 560 Website вохтога.рф Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 49 '  N , 41 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 48 '45 "  N , 41 ° 3' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Vologda Oblast

Wochtoga ( Russian Во́хтога ) is an urban-type settlement in Vologda Oblast with 6375 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Wochtoga is located about 80 kilometers southeast of the Vologda Oblast Administrative Center and 7 km from the border with Kostroma Oblast on the left bank of the Wochtoschka, which flows a few kilometers northwest into the right Suchona tributary Lescha .

The settlement belongs to the Gryazovetsky Rajon and is located about 50 km east of its administrative center Gryazovets . It is the seat of the township of Wochtoschskoje gorodskoje posselenije , which includes 48 other villages in addition to the settlement, up to 50 km away in a northeastern direction. Of these, only seven have more than 100 inhabitants: the settlement (possjolok) Wostrogski (a good 40 km north-northeast), the hamlet (chutor) Glubokoje (south-west of Wochtoga) and the villages Aksjonowo (4 km north-west), Demjanowo (11 km north-east) , Tarasovo (south adjoining), Tschuchariza (northwest adjoining) and Wochtoga (6 km south). 14 other towns have at least 10 inhabitants, 10 towns under 10 and 17 towns have no permanent residents (as of 2010).

history

The settlement goes back to the southern village of the same name, first mentioned in 1678. The name is of Finno-Ugric origin, but the meaning has not been clearly clarified; they may refer to the word for "bear" (eg owto in Ersjanischen ), or in the form ucht- / wocht- spread for portages , here between the Wochtoschka and Lescha in the river system of the Northern Dvina and about 10 km east flowing Monsa in the catchment area of ​​the Volga .

From 1902, the railway line from Saint Petersburg via Vologda to Vyatka (now Kirov ) was passed nearby . The entire line went into operation in 1906, and a settlement grew around the Wochtoga train station that was opened there . In 1933 the station became the starting point for the Monsa Railway, a route to develop the extensive forest areas north and northeast of the town. As a result, a large wood processing plant and other businesses were built near the village. Since February 10, 1960, Wochtoga has the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	4395
1979	6772
1989	7623
2002	7247
2010	6375

Note: census data

traffic

Station Wochtoga-2

Wochtoga has a train station at kilometer 678 on the Saint Petersburg - Vologda - Bui line . The broad-gauge Monsa Railway (Monsenskaya schelesnaja doroga), named after the river, branches off there, which is not subordinate to the Ministry of Transport, but also serves on sections of public passenger transport and mainly goods transport ; their station is called Wochtoga-2 . The route network was built between 1933 and 1992, initially narrow-gauge in sections , but these were also converted to broad-gauge by the end of the 1950s. The 238 km long main line leads to the Kema station, around 50 west of Nikolsk (the last 84 km from Ida have been out of service since around 2010); Branch lines lead to Wostrogski ( Kamenka station ) and Soligalitsch .

Road connection exists via the regional road 19N-009 to the district center Gryazovets, where there is a connection to the federal highway M8 Kholmogory from Moscow via Vologda to Arkhangelsk . To the northeast, the road from Wochtoga continues as 19N-007 to Demjanowo.

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 : Wochtoga  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality (Russian)