Belousovo, Kaluga Oblast

Beloussowo (Russian Белоусово ) is a small town in the Kaluga oblast (Russia) with 8412 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 70 km north- northeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Kaluga at the Dyrotschnaja, a left tributary of the Oka Creek Protva.

Beloussowo belongs to Rajon Zhukov and is eight kilometers from the direction of its administrative center Zhukov to the northwest. Only about four kilometers west of Beloussowo is the center of the city of Obninsk, which forms a separate urban district.

History

The former village Beloussowo developed since the 1950s in connection with the rapid growth of the near Obninsk, where in 1954 the first commercial nuclear power plant in the world was put into operation. In Beloussowo developed various utilities. 1962 finally got the place the status of an urban-type settlement and on 28 December 2004, the city rights.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

In Beloussowo is the newly built ( after 2003 ) Jelissaweta - Feodorovna Church.

Economy and infrastructure

In Beloussowo there are companies in the food and textile industry. Not far from the city, natural gas pipelines, and take in the direction of Moscow, Bryansk and Yelets; there is a compressor station and a regional establishment of the operator Mostransgas. In addition Beloussowo is residential suburb of the nearby city of Obninsk.

The nearest railway station is also located in Obninsk on the route Moscow - Bryansk - Kiev. By Beloussowo the A101 trunk road which connects Moscow with the Belarusian border west of Roslawl runs. Little southwest of Beloussowo crosses the A101 trunk road M3, which connects Moscow with the Ukrainian border in the direction of Kiev. In Beloussowo the Oblaststraße branches off following the left bank of the Protva about Zhukov, Kremjonki and the location already in the neighboring Moscow Oblast Protwino after Serpukhov.