Pochinki, Pochinkovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Potschinki (Russian Починки ) is a village in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Russia) with 11,891 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village lies on the northwestern edge of the Volga plate, in the extreme southeast of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, near the border with the Republic of Mordovia, removed almost 200 kilometers in a straight line from the Oblasthauptstadt Nizhny Novgorod. By Potschinki the river Rudnia which opens a few miles north in the left Sura Creek Alatyr flows.

Potschinki is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Potschinki. The village Soviet Potschinki are adjacent to the village Potschinki nor the villages Nowospasskoje (7 km south), Dubrovo (13 km southwest) and Tagajewo (6 miles west), the hamlet Seljonaja Roscha and Karmalei and settlements Ossinki and Penkosawoda assumed.

History

The first mention of a settlement on site of the present Potschinki in 1628 as mordwinisches village Anudemir or Pochinok Keuschtanow, which was destroyed by Tatars and therefore abandoned by the inhabitants. 1647 bought the Moscow boyar Boris Morozov - one of the " educator " of the minor Tsar Alexis I of Russia and de facto regent 's most influential and richest feudal lords of that time; he owned up to 274 villages and 40,000 serfs - the lands of state-owned and moved there from the Moscow region derived serfs to. This year is considered the founding year of the place, which was initially called Novo- Roschdestweno.

Morozov built in Potschinki on a potash production, which took a significant extent in the next 100 years. Being in the middle of the 18th century the necessary forests of the area had been felled, 1760 potash production was stopped and at the request of Empress Elizabeth a large stud farm to supply the cavalry regiment of the Imperial Guards ( Konny body- Gwardii polk ) was founded.

1779 Potschinki received its town charter as a city of the governorate Ujesds Lukojanow Nizhny Novgorod. In the following years the city was built on a regular basis for a general plan. The 1781 introduced Stadtwappen referred to the stud as a distinctive business enterprise of the place. Towards the end of the 19th century surpassed the population of the Potschinki of Ujesdverwaltungszentrums Lukojanow by more than fourfold. Nevertheless, the economy stagnated development situated off the main roads such as those realized in the second half of the century Railroads place.

1922 Potschinki lost its city charter and has since Selo. The present population exceeds that of the late 19th century only slightly. With the administrative reorganization after the founding of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in 1929 Potschinki was in the 1930s, yet the administrative center of a Rajons.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and Education

In Potschinki as a typical example of a provincial Russian town of the 19th century a number of buildings from this time is preserved. The complex of the stud from the years 1817 to 1825 is protected as historical monuments, but is in a poor state of preservation. Plans for the restoration of the 1990s were not implemented.

Economy and infrastructure

Potschinki is the center of an agricultural area with some plants for processing agricultural products, as well as the construction industry. The 250 year old stud Potschinki, one of the oldest in Russia, in which, among other things, the race was re- Soviet cold blood bred in the 20th century, is currently insolvent and is due to unclear ownership before the dissolution.

In Potschinki several natural gas pipelines cross. 2007 with the construction of the pipeline Potschinki - started Gryazovets that initially the gas supply Northwest Russia stabilize and to serve as a supply line to the Nord Stream gas pipeline to Western Europe, and later with the completion of a new pipeline from the Yamal Peninsula to North West Russia in the opposite direction of the supply of central Russia.

The nearest train station is located at the ten kilometers north located at the settlement Uschowka opened on this section of track in 1901 Rusajewka about Arzamas to Nizhny Novgorod ( kilometer 119). By Potschinki performs remote R178 road that connects Nizhny Novgorod on the Mordvinian capital Saransk Saratov and Penza with.