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Ponyri
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Ponyri (russian: Поныри) is the name of several inhabited localities in Kursk Oblast, Russia. ;Urban localities *Ponyri, Ponyrovsky District, Kursk Oblast, a work settlement in Ponyrovsky District ;Rural localities *Ponyri, Fatezhsky District, Kursk Oblast, a '' khutor'' in Kolychevsky Selsoviet of Fatezhsky District Fatezhsky District (russian: Фате́жский райо́н) is an administrativeResolution #489 and municipalLaw #48-ZKO district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponyri, Ponyrovsky District, Kursk Oblast
Ponyri is an urban-type settlement in the Ponyrovsky District of the Kursk Oblast. It has been famous for its apples, known as ''Antonovskiye Yabloki'' ( en, Antonov's apples ariety In the Soviet era it largely consisted of two state farms (''sovkhozi''), Ponyri 1 and 2. In English-language publications it is sometimes referred to as Ponyri Station, due to its location on the railway between Oryol and Kursk. Great Patriotic War Following the Nazi invasion, Ponyri was not under threat of occupation until late October, 1941, when the German XXXXVIII Motorized Corps pushed through against minimal resistance but while enduring minimal supplies and appalling weather on its way to Kursk. Ponyri remained under German occupation until February, 1943. In the course of the Soviet winter counter-offensive on the southern half of the front, following their victory at Stalingrad, elements of Bryansk Front's 48th and 13th Armies liberated the settlement on February 9. The Soviet adva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponyrovsky District
Ponyrovsky District (russian: Поныро́вский райо́н) is an administrativeResolution #489 and municipalLaw #48-ZKO district (raion), one of the twenty-eight in Kursk Oblast, Russia. It is located in the north of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (a work settlement) of Ponyri. Population: 13,553 ( 2002 Census); The population of Ponyri accounts for 40.7% of the district's total population. Geography Ponyrovsky District is located in the north central region of Kursk Oblast, on the border with Oryol Oblast. The terrain is hilly plain on the Orel-Kursk plateau of the Central Russian Upland. The district is 45 km north of the city of Kursk and 400 km southwest of Moscow. The area measures 25 km (north-south), and 35 km (west-east). The administrative center is the town of Ponyri. The district is bordered on the north by Oryol Oblast, on the southeast by Zolotukhinsky District, and on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ponyri, Fatezhsky District, Kursk Oblast
Ponyri (russian: links=no, Поныри) is a rural locality (a khutor) in Bolshezhirovsky Selsoviet Rural Settlement, Fatezhsky District, Kursk Oblast, Russia. The population as of 2010 is 8. Geography The khutor is located on the Nikovets Brook (a right tributary of the Ruda in the basin of the Svapa), 92 km from the Russia–Ukraine border, 35 km north-west of Kursk, 16.5 km south-west of the district center – the town Fatezh, 11 km from the selsoviet center – Bolshoye Zhirovo. Climate Ponyri has a warm-summer humid continental climate (''Dfb'' in the Köppen climate classification). Transport Ponyri is located 10 km from the federal route Crimea Highway as part of the European route E105, 33.5 km from the road of regional importance (Kursk – Ponyri), 13 km from the road (Fatezh – 38K-018), 0.5 km from the road of intermunicipal significance (M2 "Crimea Highway" – Kromskaya), 32 km from the nearest railway halt ''433 km'' (railway lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Types Of Inhabited Localities In Russia
The classification system of human settlement, inhabited localities in Russia and some other post-Soviet Union, Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with those in other countries. Classes During the Soviet Union, Soviet time, each of the republics of the Soviet Union, including the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, had its own legislative documents dealing with classification of inhabited localities. After the history of the Soviet Union (1985-1991), dissolution of the Soviet Union, the task of developing and maintaining such classification in Russia was delegated to the federal subjects of Russia, 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 :Subtemplates of Template RussiaAdmMunRef, their own laws establishing the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kursk Oblast
Kursk Oblast ( rus, Курская область, r=Kurskaya oblast, p=ˈkurskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Kursk. As of the 2010 Census, Kursk Oblast has a population of 1,127,081. Geography The oblast, with an average elevation of , occupies the southern slopes of the middle-Russian plateau. The surface is hilly and intersected by ravines. The central part of Kursk oblast is more elevated than the Seym Valley to the west. The Timsko-Shchigrinsky ridge contains the highest point in the oblast at above the sea level. The low relief, gentle slopes, and mild winters make the area suitable for farming, and much of the forest has been cleared. Chernozem soils cover around 70% of the oblast's territory; podsol soils cover 26%. ;Borders: ''Internal'': Bryansk Oblast (NW) (border length: ), Oryol Oblast (N, ), Lipetsk Oblast (NE, ), Voronezh Oblast (E, ), Belgorod Oblast (S, ). ''International'': S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across eleven time zones and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than any other country but China. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and largest city is Moscow, the largest city entirely within Europe. Saint Petersburg is Russia's cultural centre and second-largest city. Other major urban areas include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. Kievan Rus' arose as a state in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban-type Settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, abbreviated: uk, с.м.т., translit=s.m.t.; be, пасёлак гарадскога тыпу, translit=pasiolak haradskoha typu; pl, osiedle typu miejskiego; bg, селище от градски тип, translit=selishte ot gradski tip; ro, așezare de tip orășenesc. is an official designation for a semi-urban settlement (previously called a "town"), used in several Eastern European countries. The term was historically used in Bulgaria, Poland, and the Soviet Union, and remains in use today in 10 of the post-Soviet states. The designation was used in all 15 member republics of the Soviet Union from 1922, when it replaced a number of terms that could have been translated by the English term "town" (Russia – '' posad'', Ukraine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khutor
A khutor ( rus, хутор, p=ˈxutər) or khutir ( uk, хутiр, pl. , ''khutory'') is a type of rural locality in some countries of Eastern Europe; in the past the term mostly referred to a single- homestead settlement.Khutor from the Khutor from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
