Yelan, Volgograd Oblast
Jelan (Russian Елань ) is an urban-type settlement in Volgograd Oblast (Russia) with 14,833 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The settlement is located in the southern Russian steppe region, about 250 km as the crow north-northwest of Volgograd, in the extreme north of the Oblast, near the border of the Saratov Oblast. Jelan lies at the mouth of the eponymous river Jelan in the Medveditsa inflow Tersa.
The town is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Jelan.
History
The town was founded in the late 17th century by evacuees from " Little Russia ". However, the official year is 1691, when Tsar Peter the Great the boyars Lev Naryshkin half a million desiatins ( over 550,000 acres) of land in the area is still sparsely populated gave.
As the center of a predominantly agricultural area of the city had initially mainly trade on the water route to Rostov-on- Don, but then turned more to the trading centers of south-central Russia as Yelets, Morshansk or from Kolomna. After interim decline recovered the economy, particularly with the opening of the railway line from Tambov about Balashov after Kamyshin on the Volga River through the town towards the end of the 19th century. Efforts to the award of the municipal law were unsuccessful.
In the 1920s Jelan was under an administrative reform center of a newly created Rajons, 1959, she was awarded the status of an urban-type settlement.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Culture and sights
In Jelan the classical church of the descent of the Holy Spirit are (Russian Духосошественская церковь / Duchososchestwenskaja Tserkov ) in 1820 and obtained the building of the Zemstvo Hospital in 1898. Since 1961 there is a local history museum.
Economy and infrastructure
In Jelan as the center of an agricultural area outweigh companies in the food industry. There is also a factory for agricultural equipment and construction companies.
The settlement lies on the railway line Tambov - Kamyshin ( station name Jelan - Kamyschinskaja; kilometer 293), which is operated on this section of the South East Railway. Road link is to the 90 km in a southwesterly direction away Nowoanninski from the M6, which connects Moscow with Volgograd and Astrakhan, and to the southeast along the Tersa by Kamyshin.