Okulovka (town), Novgorod Oblast
Okulovka (Russian Окуловка ) is a town in the Novgorod Oblast (Russia) with 12,464 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The city is located in the Valdai Hills about 140 kilometers east of the Oblasthauptstadt Veliky Novgorod at the Peretna, a left tributary of the opening into the Volkhov MSTA.
Okulovka is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.
The town lies on the railway line opened in 1851 Saint Petersburg- Moscow, the former railway Nikolai ( kilometer 249), branches off from the here a branch line to Nebolchi.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1495 Okulovka in a Novgorod chronicle.
In 1850 a settlement was the same station in connection with the construction of the railway Nikolai.
The settlement was founded in 1927 the administrative center of a Rajons and received on 25 June 1928 status of urban-type settlement, as well as the neighboring Paraschino - Poddubje. On January 12, 1965, both settlements were united under the name Okulovka and received a city charter.
Alexander Nevsky Church in Okulovka
Station Okulovka
Demographics
Note: Census data
Culture and sights
In Okulovka different buildings have survived from the 19th century, the depot of 1850 as well as the homes of the families Soin and Zubov from the end of the century.
25 km southeast of Okulovka is St. George's Church ( Георгиевская церковь / Georgijewskaja Tserkov ) of 1801. Near them the former country seat on which the anthropologist and explorer Nikolai Miklucho - Maklai was born is located.
Personalities
- Nikolai Miklucho - Maklai (1846-1888), anthropologist and explorer, was born at Okulovka
- Yuri Rjorich (1902-1960), ethnographer, philologist, art historian and explorer, was born in Okulovka
Economy
The largest enterprises of the city are a paper factory, founded in 1896 and an electric cable factory. In addition, in two plants at the site funded mineral water is bottled ( Rodnik Waldaja for Wimm -Bill-Dann Foods and Sem rutschjew ).