Kurya, Kuryinsky District, Altai Krai

Kurja (Russian Курья ) is a village ( selo ) in the region of Altai (Russia) with 3835 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village is located about 220 km as the crow south-southwest of the regional administration center Barnaul on the southern edge of the Voraltaiebene ( Predaltaiskaja Ravnina ) at the Loktewka, a left tributary of the Charysh.

Kurja is the administrative seat of the Rajons Kurjinski and seat and only town in the rural community Kurjinski selsowet.

History

The village was founded in 1749. Since 1924 Kurja center is one Rajons.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Traffic

Branches Kazakh border and continue on the Rajonzentren Smeinogorsk and Staroaleiskoje also causes the Kazakh border - Barnaul - - ​​Rubtsovsk By Kurja the regional road R370, at the Pospelicha from that of the A349 trunk road runs Nowoaltaisk. In Kurja branches off to the east a road over Krasnoschtschokowo and Petropawlowskoje after Smolenskoje south of Bijsk from.

In Pospelicha 60 km from the nearest railway station is on the route Novosibirsk - Barnaul - Semipalatinsk.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Mikhail Kalashnikov (* 1919), head of engineering and Lieutenant General