Zelina (Russia)

settlement Zelina иелина Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Rostov Rajon Zelinski Founded 1922 Settlement since 1992 population 10,649 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 110  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86371 Post Code 347760 License Plate 61, 161 OKATO 60 256 855 001 Geographical location Coordinates 46 ° 32 '  N , 41 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '0 "  N , 41 ° 2' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Rostov Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Zelina ( Russian Целина́ ) is a settlement (possjolok) in Rostov Oblast in Russia with 10,649 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

School No. 32 in Zelina

The place is located in the steppe area of the Caucasus foothills almost 130 km as the crow flies southeast of the administrative center of Rostov-on-Don .

Zelina is the administrative center of the Rajons Zelinski and seat and only town in the rural community Zelinskoje selskoje posselenije.

history

The place arose from 1916 after the opening of the railway line (Rostov-on-Don -) Bataisk  - Salsk 1915. The official year of foundation is 1922, after a larger number of people after the Russian civil war, also in connection with the famine of 1921 had been resettled from Ukraine and central Russia to reclaim the previously unused steppe land. The name of the train station and later of the place corresponds to the Russian word for new territory .

As early as 1923 the settlement administrative headquarters was one Rajons, who initially named Sapadno-Konnosawodtscheski rayon (about "Western stud -Rajon") contributed to 1930 after founded in 1928 pattern state farm for crop production giant (first state farm no. 1 ) in Gigantowski rayon renamed has been. This went up in 1934 in the Salski rajon , but on January 2, 1935, a smaller Zelinski rajon based in Zelina was outsourced.

During the Second World War , Zelina was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from late July 1942 to early 1943 . From 1976 to 1992 Zelina had urban-type settlement status .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5,513
1959	7,721
1970	10.112
1979	11,995
1989	12,545
2002	11.092
2010	10,649

Note: census data

traffic

Zelina is at km 135 of the Rostov-on-Don - Salsk railway line. The regional road 60K-3 (formerly R270), the Jegorlykskaja at the 60K-1 (formerly R269) Rostov - Stavropol with the Salsk at the 60K-2 Peschanokopskoye  - Kotelnikowo ( Volgograd Oblast ) runs through the settlement. connects.

Web links

• Official website of the Raion 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)