Bekovo, Penza Oblast
Bekovo () is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Bekovsky District of Penza Oblast, Russia, located to the extreme south of the oblast on the right bank of the Khopyor River, from Penza. Population: History It was founded in the late 17th century and renamed in the 18th century after Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky. The inhabitants built the church of St. Nicholas in 1771 and the Church of the Intercession in 1813. Urban-type settlement status was granted to Bekovo in 1959. Transportation It has a railway station on the Tambov-Saratov line, now belonging to the South-Eastern Railway, which opened on February 22, 1874. File:Bekovo station.jpg, Bekovo railway station. 2011 File:Bekovo railway branch.JPG, Bekovo railway branch near Sosnovka Sosnovka () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Modern localities Altai Krai As of 2012, six rural localities in Altai Krai bear this name: * Sosnovka, Charyshsky District, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Penza Oblast
Penza Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Penza. As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census, its population was 1,266,348. It was formed in 1939 on the territory detached from neighboring Tambov Oblast. Geography The highest point of Penza Oblast is an unnamed hill of the Khvalynsk Mountains reaching above sea level located at the southeastern end, near Neverkino. Main rivers Penza Oblast has over 3000 rivers; the overall length is 15,458 km. The biggest rivers are: *Sura River, Sura; *Moksha River, Moksha; *Khopyor River, Khopyor. *:ru:Пенза (река), Penza River gave its name to the city of Penza. Fauna There are 316 species of vertebrates within the region, including: *about 10 species of amphibians; *about 200 species of birds; *about 8 species of reptiles; *about 68 species of mammals (fox, rabbit, ferret, badger, squirrel, bea ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bekovsky District
Bekovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #774-ZPO and municipalLaw #690-ZPO district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Penza Oblast, twenty-seven in Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is .Official website of Bekovsky DistrictAbout the District Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, urban locality (a urban-type settlement, work settlement) of Bekovo, Penza Oblast, Bekovo. As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 17,531, with the population of Bekovo accounting for 39.6% of that number. History The district was established in 1928. References Notes Sources * * {{Use mdy dates, date=October 2012 Districts of Penza Oblast States and territories established in 1928 __NOTOC__ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Types Of Inhabited Localities In Russia
The classification system of inhabited localities in Russia and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with those in other countries. Classes During the Soviet time, each of the republics of the Soviet Union, including the Russian SFSR, had its own legislative documents dealing with classification of inhabited localities. After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the task of developing and maintaining such classification in Russia was delegated to the federal subjects.Articles 71 and 72 of the Constitution of Russia do not name issues of the administrative and territorial structure among the tasks handled on the federal level or jointly with the governments of the federal subjects. As such, all federal subjects pass their own laws establishing the system of the administrative-territorial divisions on their territories. While currently there are certain peculiarities to classifications used in many federal subjects, they are all still largel ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Urban-type Settlement
Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the Soviet Union and later also for a short time in People's Republic of Bulgaria, socialist Bulgaria and Polish People's Republic, socialist Poland. It remains in use today in nine of the post-Soviet states. The designation was used in all 15 member republics of the Soviet Union from 1922. It was introduced later in Poland (1954) and Bulgaria (1964). All the urban-type settlements in Poland were transformed into other types of settlement (town or village) in 1972. In Bulgaria and five of the post-Soviet republics (Armenia, Moldova, and the three Baltic states), they were changed in the early 1990s, while Ukraine followed suit in 2023. Today, this term is still used in the other nine post-Soviet republics – Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia (co ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Administrative Center
An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and many African countries, a (, , ) is a town or city that is important from an administrative perspective. Algeria The capitals of Algerian provinces, districts, and communes are called . Belgium The in Belgium is the administrative centre of each of the ten provinces of Belgium. Three of these cities also give their name to their province (Antwerp, Liège and Namur). France The of a French department is known as the prefecture (). This is the town or city where the prefect of the department (and all services under their control) are situated, in a building also known as the prefecture. In every French region, one of the departments has preeminence over the others, and the prefect carries the tit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oblast
An oblast ( or ) is a type of administrative division in Bulgaria and several post-Soviet states, including Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Historically, it was used in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The term ''oblast'' is often translated into English language, English as 'region' or 'province'. In some countries, oblasts are also known by cognates of the Russian term. Etymology The term ''oblast'' is Loanword, borrowed from Russian language, Russian область (), where it is inherited from Old East Slavic, in turn borrowed from Church Slavonic область ''oblastĭ'' 'power, empire', formed from the prefix (cognate with Classical Latin ''ob'' 'towards, against' and Ancient Greek ἐπί/ἔπι ''epi'' 'in power, in charge') and the stem ''vlastǐ'' 'power, rule'. In Old East Slavic, it was used alongside ''obolostǐ''—the equivalent of 'against' and 'territory, state, power' (cognate with English 'wield'; see volost). History Russian Empire In the Russia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Khopyor River
The Khopyor (, also transliterated as Khoper) is a river in European Russia, the biggest left tributary of the river Don.Хопёр It is long, with a of .«Река Хопер» Russian State Water Registry The width is . The Khopyor is navigable up to from the mo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Penza
Penza (, ) is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and administrative center of Penza Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Sura (river), Sura River, southeast of Moscow. As of the 2010 Russian census, 2010 Census, Penza had a population of 517,311, making it the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, 36th-largest city in Russia. Etymology The city name is a hydronym and means in () from ''pen'' 'end of (genitive)' and ''sa(ra)'' 'swampy river'. Geography Urban layout This central quarter occupies the territory on which the wooden fortress Penza was once located, therefore it is sometimes called the Serf. The architectural concept of the old fortress, erected on the eastern slope of the mountain above the river, predetermined the direction of the first streets. The direction and location of the first streets were set by the passage towers of the fortress and the orientation of its walls. This is how the first six streets of the city were formed ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bekovo
Bekovo () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. ;Urban localities *Bekovo, Penza Oblast, a work settlement in Bekovsky District of Penza Oblast ;Rural localities * Bekovo, Kemerovo Oblast, a '' selo'' in Belovsky District of Kemerovo Oblast * Bekovo, Tyumen Oblast, a ''selo'' in Sladkovsky District of Tyumen Oblast * Bekovo, Leningrad Oblast, a village in Luzhsky District of Leningrad Oblast Leningrad Oblast (, ; ; ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). The oblast has an area of and a population of 2,000,997 (2021 Russian census, 2021 Census); up from 1,716,868 recorded in the 2010 Russian census ... References {{SIA, populated places in Russia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky
Prince Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky (), born Devlet-Girei-mırza (; died 1717), was a Imperial Russia, Russian officer of Circassians, Circassian origin who led the first Russian military expedition into Central Asia. Background A Muslims, Muslim by birth, and the son of one of Kabarda's rulers, Alexander converted to Christianity and joined the Russian service, although the dates and circumstances of these events are not on record. In 1707, he was commissioned by Peter I of Russia, Peter the Great to study navigation in Western Europe, and towards the end of 1711 he was back in Russia. From there, he was sent back to his native Kabarda and persuaded some powerful men there to support the Russian Tsar in his operations against the Ottoman Empire. Dreaming of Eldorado Two years later, a Turkmens, Turkmen traveller arrived in Astrakhan and announced to local authorities that the Amu Darya, Oxus River, formerly flowing to the Caspian Sea, had been diverted by the Khivans to the A ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sosnovka, Bekovsky District, Penza Oblast
Sosnóvka (, means Piny Village) is a selo and the administrative center of Sosnovskiy Selsoviet (rural settlement "Sosnovskiy Selsoviet") of Bekovsky District in Penza Oblast, Russia. The selo had 10 peasant (farmer) farms in 1998. It also had 580 farms and 1380 inhabitants at 1 January 2004. it has less than 1000 inhabitants. There are more than 700 households, many of them abandoned. There are Vertunovskaya railway station with station-house ( Open JSC Russian Railways, Pochtovaya st.), a post office (office of Federal state unitary enterprise "Russian Post", Pochtovaya st., 88), telegraph, telephone, first-aid and obstetric point, ambulance station attached to railway station, secondary school (municipal educational institution Sosnovka secondary comprehensive school, муниципальное образовательное учреждение средняя общеобразовательная школа с. Сосновка, Shkol'naya st., 1) with 132 pupils in 201 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |