Zdvinsk (russian: Здвинск) is a
rural locality (a ''
selo'') and the
administrative center
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of
Zdvinsky District of
Novosibirsk Oblast,
Russia
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, located on the
Kargat River
The Kargat (russian: Каргат) is a river in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. It is a right tributary of the Chulym. The Kargat is in length, with a drainage basin of .
Course
The river begins in the southern sections of the Vasyugan Swamp, at ...
. Population: Postal code: 632950. Dialing code: +7 38363.
Geography
The landscape of Zdvisk is plain; there are some forests and
steppe
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Steppe biomes may include:
* the montane grasslands and shrublands biome
* the temperate grasslands, ...
areas around.
History
It was founded in 1773 as a farmed plot of land called Taskayevo (). It grew in size in the following years and in 1896 was renamed Nizhny Kargat (). On June 7, 1933, it was given its present name, Zdvinsk, after a local revolutionary M. Zdvinsky who died in 1918. It was granted
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
status in 1978, but was demoted back to a rural locality in 1992.
Transportation
Zdvinsk does not have direct railway access or an airport. The main paved road connects it to
Barabinsk, a major railway station.
Notable residents
*
Aleksandr Stolyarenko (born 1991), footballer
References
Populated places established in 1773
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Rural localities in Novosibirsk Oblast
Former urban-type settlements of Novosibirsk Oblast