Bashmakovo, Penza Oblast

Baschmakowo (Russian Башмаково ) is an urban-type settlement in the Penza Oblast (Russia) with 10,416 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is situated about 130 km west of the Oblastverwaltungszentrums Penza at the headwaters of Poim, a right tributary of the Worona.

Baschmakowo is the administrative center of the Rajons Baschmakowski and seat and only town in the municipality ( gorodskoje posselenije ) Possjolok Baschmakowo.

History

The settlement was founded in 1875 by a railway station on the route opened in 1874 Morshansk - Penza - Sysran between the northern and the southern village Koljossowka, known since 1860 Weiler Mikhailovka (both were later incorporated ). The station was named after two shareholders of Morshansk - Sysraner Railway as well as the 1867 built, west subsequent Ryazhsk - Morschansker railway, the brothers Alexander and Sergei Bashmakov (also an engineer at Streckenbau ).

1928 Baschmakowo administrative seat of a Rajons, since 1959 it has the status of an urban-type settlement.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Traffic

Baschmakowo is the distance Ryazhsk at kilometer 541 (from Moscow) - Sysran, part of the oldest connection between Central Russia and the Urals.

Road link is on regional roads south to about 25 km away federal highway R208 Tambov - Belinsky - Penza, to the northeast, first along the railway line to Patschelma and continue to Nizhny Lomov on the M5 Ural Moscow - Chelyabinsk and in a northwesterly direction to the neighboring Rajonzentrum Semettschino and also continued to M5.