The geographical center of the Penza region - a point equidistant from the northern and southern, as well as from the western and eastern borders of the Penza region , has geographical coordinates 53.166667 ° north latitude and 44.566667 ° east longitude. It is located 26 km west of the city of Penza , on a small island in the floodplain of the Penza river, between the villages of Dubenskoye and Zagoskino .
On December 26, 1959, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR (GAPO, f. R. 2038, op. 1, d. 3890, p. 105), the Luhmen-Maidan Village Council was transferred from the Nizhnelomovsky District of the Penza Region to the Insarsky District of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
From this day to the present, the administrative borders of the Penza region have never changed. This means that its geographical center was not moving anywhere - an imaginary point, for the time being ... was unknown where.
The idea of calculating the geographical center of the Penza region belongs to Alexander Shilin, the head of the ZAGOSKIN Travel Club (Penza).
On November 4, 2006, using the data of mathematical calculations made by the employees of Expedition No. 137, a branch of the Srednevolzhsky Airborne Geodetic Enterprise, like-minded people from the ZAGOSKIN Travel Club found this point on the ground and marked it with a temporary identification mark.
According to the “Topographic Description of the Penza Viceroyalty” (Penza, 1784) and the General Surveying Plan, Penza Uyezd, 2 versts / 1 inch (Penza, 1792), two peaks of the same common watercourse flowing from the western and northern directions, in the geographical center of Penza the regions merge together and, rushing towards the south, make up the river on which “the city of summer 7171/1663 [was] ordered to build”.
Thus, the "city-forming" river Penza begins in the geographical center of the Penza region, and ends in its administrative center!
On May 31, 2008, the Museum of the Penza Region Geographic Center was opened in the school building of the village of Zagoskino. [one]
ZAGOSKIN Travel Club
In 2009, like-minded people from the ZAGOSKIN Travel Club calculated and marked on the ground the coordinates of the northernmost point of the region (“Far North”) - in the Nikolsky district, the most southern (“The Lost South”) - in Serdobsky district, the westernmost (“Wild West” ") - in the Zemetsy district and the most eastern (" Far East ") - in the Neverkinsky district. The highest point of the region is in the Kuznetsk district, the lowest is in the Zemetschinsky [2] .