Uglovka () is an urban locality (a work settlement) in

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, located on the

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. Municipally, it is incorporated as Uglovskoye Urban Settlement in Okulovsky Municipal District, one of the three urban settlements in the district. Population:

History

The village of Ugol () was first mentioned in a chronicle in 1495. The development of the area started in 1851 when Uglovka became a railway station on the Nikolayevskaya Railway which connected Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Uglovka developed first as a settlement serving the railway stations, and eventually the limestone extraction started. In the beginning of the 20th century, it was a part of Borovyonskaya Volost of

Valdaysky Uyezd Valdaysky Uyezd (''Валдайский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the southwestern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Valday, Novgorod Oblast, Va ...

Novgorod Governorate Novgorod Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, which existed from 1727 to 1776 and from 1796 to 1927. Its administrative cent ...

. In 1921, it was transferred to Shegrinskaya Volost of Borovichsky Uyezd. On August 1, 1927, the uyezds were abolished, and Uglovsky District with the center in the railway station of Uglovka was established as part of Borovichi Okrug of

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. On July 23, 1930, the okrugs were abolished, and the districts became directly subordinate to the oblast. On January 1, 1932, Uglovsky District was abolished and split between Borovichsky, Okulovsky, and Bologovsky Districts. Uglovka became a part of Okulovsky District. On July 5, 1944, Okulovsky District was transferred to newly established Novgorod Oblast and remained there ever since. Urban-type settlement status was granted to Uglovka on November 9, 1938.

Economy

Industry

The economy of Uglovka is based on

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

extraction and processing.

Transportation

Uglovka has a station on the

. This was the first long-distance railway constructed in Russia, opened in 1851. Another railway line going east of Uglovka connects it to

Borovichi Borovichi () is the second largest town in Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Msta River in the northern spurs of the Valdai Hills, east of Veliky Novgorod, the administrative center of the oblast. As of the 2010 Census, its populati ...

. There is a road connection to Okulovka, as well as local roads.

Culture and recreation

Uglovka contains two objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance. One of them is the Church of the Nativity of Christ, and the other one is a grave of two soldiers fallen in the Second World War. Uglovka was never occupied by the German troops, but was close to the front line.

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* * * {{Use mdy dates, date=August 2012 Urban-type settlements in Novgorod Oblast Valdaysky Uyezd