Volchikha

Village Woltschicha Волчиха Federal district Siberia region Altai Rajon Volchikha Founded 1782 Village since 1991 population 10,396 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 205  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38565 Post Code 658930-658933 License Plate 22nd OKATO 01 208 821 001 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 1 ′  N , 80 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  N , 80 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Altai region

List of large settlements in Russia

Wolchicha ( Russian Во́лчиха ) is a large village (selo) in the Altai region ( Russia ) with 10,396 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located in the southern part of the Kulunda steppe on the north-western edge of one of the “ribbon forests ” characteristic of the area , elongated pine forest massifs that run parallel for several hundred kilometers in a south-west-north-east direction . The settlement is about 270 kilometers as the crow flies in a south-westerly direction from the regional capital Barnaul and 75 kilometers from the border with Kazakhstan . The stream of the same name, which flows through Voltschicha and is dammed into a small pond, flows a good 15 km southwest into the salt lake Bytschje ("Stier-See"), which lies in a drainless depression together with several smaller lakes .

Wolchicha is the administrative center of the Wolchicha Rajon of the same name .

history

The village was founded in 1782.

As part of the administrative reorganization in the Soviet period, it became the administrative center of a newly founded Rajon in 1924. Urban-type settlement status was granted in the 1960s ; however, since 1991 Volchicha has been a "rural settlement" again, like a number of comparable towns in the region with an agricultural orientation, despite a renewed increase in the number of inhabitants.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	7.096
1959	10,371
1970	10,066
1979	9,900
1989	10,420
2002	11.301
2010	10,396

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Since 1971 there has been a Rajon History Museum in Volchikha .

Economy and Infrastructure

Located between a reclaimed steppe area and a forest massif hundreds of square kilometers, Volchicha is the center of agriculture and forestry.

The nearest train stations are located 60 km southwest in Mikhailovskoye on the Kulunda - Malinowoje Osero branch line and 80 km southeast in the city ​​of Rubzowsk on the main Novosibirsk – Barnaul – Kazakh border .

In Volchicha the regional roads cross from Barnaul via Rebricha to Mikhailovskoye and from Rubzowsk to Rodino , Stepnoye Osero and Blagoweschenka , through which there is a connection to the railway lines and all the surrounding Rajon administrative centers.

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)
2. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)

Web links

• Volchikha Raion on the Altai Region Administration website (Russian)