Uzlovaya

Uslowaja (Russian Узловая ) is a town with 55 282 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Tula Oblast in Russia. It is the administrative center of the oblast Rajons and located 44 km south-east of the regional capital of Tula.

History

The village was founded in the 1870s, the construction of the railway line from Sysran after Wjasma. The intersection of this line with a branch line from Moscow (which has been extended in the 1930s to the Donets Basin ) in 1873, the station settlement Chruschtschowskaja ( Хрущёвская ) applied the name Uslowaja four years later - to German node station - received. 1938 Uslowaja received city rights, while lignite deposits were opened up in the area.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and Transport

In the city there are now some industrial firms: An engineering factory, a plastic factory and textile and food companies. In the surrounding area before main activity is agriculture; lignite mining was stopped at Uslowaja in the 1990s.

A few kilometers west of the city runs the highway M4, also Uslowaja is still a railway junction and has a mainline train station.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Shamil Chissamutdinow (* 1950), Ringer
• Soy Woskressenskaja (1907-1992), children's book author