Volga (Yaroslavl)

settlement Volga Волга Federal district Central Russia Oblast Yaroslavl Rajon Nekous population 3543 inhabitants (as of 2002) Time zone UTC + 3 Post Code 152750 License Plate 76 OKATO 78 223 806 001 Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 57 '  N , 38 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 57 '1 "  N , 38 ° 23' 59"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Yaroslavl Oblast

Volga ( Russian Волга ) is a settlement in Nekous district of Yaroslavl Oblast in Russia , on the left bank of the Volga .

In 2002 3543 people lived in the settlement; by 2010 the population sank to under 3000. 25 km northeast of the settlement is the city of Rybinsk , 20 km south of the settlement is the small town of Myshkin . There is also a wool spinning mill and a textile school in the settlement. The Volga railway station is located near the settlement .

The Volga is the administrative seat of the rural municipality Wolschskoje selskoje posselenije, to which 65 other villages and rural settlements belong. The rural community has a total of 4197 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

The place was created towards the end of the 19th century in connection with the establishment of a wool spinning mill by German entrepreneurs on the Rybinsk - Bologoje railway line . In 1927 it received urban-type settlement status , which it lost again in 1996.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	5642
1970	5415
1979	4933
1989	4513
2002	3543

Note: census data

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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

• http://savelrr.nm.ru/towns/volga/brief.htm