Sitniki is a rural village in the urban district of Bor, Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia.
| Village | |
| Sitniki | |
|---|---|
| A country |  Russia |
| Subject of the federation | Nizhny Novgorod Region |
| City District | City Bor |
| ATO | Sitnikovsky Village Council |
| History and Geography | |
| Based | 1946 |
| Settlement with | 2004 |
| Timezone | UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | 1321 people |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | +7 83159-30 |
| Postcode | 606470 |
| OKATO code | 22412857001 |
| OKTMO code | |
The administrative center of the administrative-territorial formation of the Sitnikovsky village council [1] .
Content
Geography
It is located 5 km from the railway station Kiselikha (on the line Nizhny Novgorod - Kotelnich ) and 14 km from the city of Bor .
About a kilometer from the village there is a regional highway Nizhny Novgorod - Kirov (highway P159).
History
It was founded in 1946 as a working village. In 2004, it was transformed from an urban-type settlement to a rural settlement [2] .
The main type of industry in Soviet times was the extraction of peat , as well as the maintenance of a narrow-gauge railway branch, which also served peatlands. At present, the peat briquette plant is in ruins, the narrow-gauge road has been dismantled, and restoration into wetlands has been carried out on former quarries.
Population
The population of 1321 people.
Infrastructure
The village has a post office of Russia , a hospital, an outpatient clinic, comprehensive school No. 15, and a kindergarten Zvyozdochka.
There are three streets in the village: Bolnichnaya, Centralnaya, 1st section.
At the end of 2012, a water supply from the Ivanovsky Cordon water intake (artesian well, a depth of about 30 m) was organized in the village, which radically changed the quality of drinking water.
Bird Sanctuary
On the territory of the village council is the Sitnikovsky ornithological reserve with an area of 2.1 thousand hectares. The reserve is located 8 km north of the city of Bor and includes a system of Sitnikovsky peat quarries. It was created to protect the largest gull bird settlement in continental Europe: lake gulls, blue-headed gulls, silver gulls, river terns, as well as hunting and rare species of waterfowl and water birds.
Notes
- ↑ Settlements of the city of Bor (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment April 13, 2014. Archived April 2, 2015.
- ↑ Law of the Nizhny Novgorod Region No. 141-З . Portal of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation (November 29, 2004). - On the change in the category of settlements in the municipality of Borsk district of the Nizhny Novgorod region. Date of treatment April 13, 2014.
Links
- Sitniki - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
- Narrow Gauge Railway of the Gorky Industrial Railway Transport Enterprise
- OKATO in the Nizhny Novgorod region
- Official website of Bor
- Website of BORSK VODOKANAL OJSC
- NNGASU website about Sitnikovsky Reserve