Voznesenskoye (Nizhny Novgorod)

Urban-type settlement Voznesenskoye Vozneseenskoe Federal district Volga Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Rajon Vosnesensky First mention 1773 Earlier names Kudinowo (until 1773) Voznesensky Sawod Urban-type settlement since 1961 population 6777 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83178 Post Code 607340 License Plate 52, 152 OKATO 22 219 551 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 54 '  N , 42 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 53 '30 "  N , 42 ° 46' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Voznesenskoje ( Russian Вознесе́нское ) is an urban-type settlement in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia with 6,777 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located about 175 km as the crow flies southwest of the administrative center of Nizhny Novgorod, not far from the borders with Ryazan Oblast and the Republic of Mordovia . It is located on the right Mokscha tributary Warnawa, which is dammed up there to form a small reservoir.

Voznesenskoje is the administrative center of Voznesensky Rajons and the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Rabotschi possjolok Voznesenskoje.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1773 as the village of Kudinowo in connection with the opening of an ironworks, which was named Voznesensky Sawod . The factory settlement, which from the end of the century belonged to the Ujesd Temnikow of the Tambov governorate, also bore this name .

The plant was closed in 1913, whereby the settlement lost its economic importance; However, in July 1929, as the former seat of a Volost, it became the administrative seat of a Rajons formed from this, now under the current name. In 1961 Voznesenskoye received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	3557
1939	2610
1959	2770
1970	3435
1979	3934
1989	6766
2002	7328
2010	6777

Note: census data

traffic

The regional road 22K-0061, coming from the north from the town of Vyksa , about 60 km away, runs through Vosnesenskoye and continues to Sarov a good 30 km east. There is also the nearest train station (outside the restricted area of ​​the closed city ), the end point of a branch line from Shatki on the Nizhny Novgorod - Arsamas  - Saransk line . In a south-westerly direction, 22K-0065 branches off in Vosnesenskoye to the border of the Republic of Mordovia, from there to Tenguschewo , with a connection to 22K-0083 to the border of Ryazan Oblast, from there via Yermish to Sassovo .

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)