Zilna

Urban-type settlement Zilna Chilna Federal district Volga Oblast Ulyanovsk Rajon Zilninski Founded 194x Urban-type settlement since 1962 population 4119 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 90  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84245 Post Code 433600 License Plate 73, 173 OKATO 73 254 554 Website cilna-adm.ru Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 36 '  N , 48 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 35 '30 "  N , 48 ° 9' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ulyanovsk Oblast

Zilna ( Russian Ци́льна ) is an urban-type settlement in the Ulyanovsk Oblast in Russia with 4119 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 35 km as the crow flies north-northwest of the Ulyanovsk Oblast Administrative Center a few kilometers from the left bank of the Svijaga .

Zilna belongs to the Zilninski district . It is located just under 15 km northeast of the Bolshoye Nagatkino district administrative center and is the seat of the municipality of Zilninskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the villages of Arbusowka (7 km southeast), Kaschinka (4 km north), Marjewka (2 km northeast) and Teleschowka (3 km northeast) east) and the settlement Arbusowski (3 km southeast) belong.

history

The place arose in the 1940s in connection with the construction of the railway line Svyashsk  - Ulyanovsk - Syzran , when a train station was built there and named after the left Svyaga tributary Zilna , which flows 15 km to the north . A settlement grew around the station, in which a large sugar factory and several farms, such as a large grain silo, were built. In 1962 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	2989
1979	4497
1989	4720
2002	4165
2010	4119

Note: census data

traffic

Zilna has a station at kilometer 158 of 1942 opened railway line from Nischnije Wjasowyje (Station sviyazhsk ) in Kazan on Ulyanovsk to Syzran.

The federal highway R241 Kazan - Ulyanovsk runs through the settlement . The regional road 73K-1429 branches off in a south-westerly direction  and crosses the federal highway A151 Ziwilsk - Ulyanovsk in the district center of Bolshoye Nagatkino and continues towards Maina .

Web links

• Official website of the municipal 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)