Pokrovskoye, Rostov Oblast

Pokrovskoe (Russian Покровское ) is a village ( selo ) in the Rostov Oblast in Russia with 12,369 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The town is located some 60 km as the crow west-northwest of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Rostov -on-Don and about 20 km north of the city of Taganrog. It is located on the left bank of the Mius, a good 15 km upstream from its mouth in the Mius Liman Sea of ​​Azov.

Pokrovskoe is the administrative center of the Rajons Neklinowski and seat and only town in the rural community Pokrovskoe selskoje posselenije.

History

The town was founded in 1769 by Zaporozhian Cossacks. The name is derived from the Russian (or Church Slavonic ) Short for Pokrovsky Preswjatoi Bogorodozy, the holiday of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God, one of the " Great Festivals " the Russian Orthodox Church, the first of the village church was dedicated.

Since 1936 Pokrovskoe rayon is the administrative seat of Neklinowski that exists in today's borders since 1965. The Rajon is named after the original mean their villages Bolschaja Neklinowka and Malaya Neklinowka on the opposite bank of the Mius, also eponymous for the station located in Pokrovskoe Neklinowka, following their opening in 1869, the village took a significant upturn.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Traffic

Pokrovskoe is located on the on this section electrified since 1961 railway line Moscow - Kharkov - Rostov-on- Don ( station Neklinowka; kilometer 1256), which was part of the most important link in the movement of persons between Moscow and the Caucasus and the Caucasian Black Sea coast in the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the track has lost this meaning to the easterly connection via Voronezh due to their course through Ukraine.

A few kilometers east of the village passes the regional road 60K -5, the good 10 km south-east, the village Sambek, from the federal highway A280 (former M23 ) branches and the Ukrainian border leads ( following the directions Charzysk, of the shortest connection between the million cities Rostov-on- Don and Donetsk ).