Baranivka (Altai Territory)

The village is located in the southern part of the Altai Territory, at the southern foot of the Kolyvan Range , on the banks of the Goltsovka River (a tributary of the Alei River), at a distance of about 7 kilometers (in a straight line) south of the city of Zmeinogorsk , the administrative center of the region. The absolute height is 355 meters above sea ​​level ^[1] .
The climate is temperate, continental . The average January temperature is −15.1 ° C, July - +19.2 ° C. The annual amount of precipitation is 650 mm ^[2] .

Baranovka was founded in 1887 ^[3] , and was originally called Barannikov’s capture. In 1899, in a mansion belonging to the Zmeinogorsk volost of the Zmeinogorsk district , there were 198 households (185 peasant and 13 non-peasant) and 1421 people (736 men and 685 women) lived. An apiary, two forges and a peeling for millet functioned ^[4] . As of 1911, Barannikova included 207 yards. The population at that time was 1,410 people. There was a prayer house, an oil factory, a mill and a trading shop ^[5] .
In 1926, in the village of Baranovka, there were 402 households and 2393 people lived (1182 men and 1211 women). A first-level school and a consumer society shop functioned. Administratively, Baranovka was the center of the village council of the Zmeinogorsky district of the Rubtsovsky district of the Siberian region ^[3] . In the Soviet period, the advanced collective farm. Shumakova

For 2018, 1766 people live in the village

According to the 2002 census , Russians accounted for 97% of the national population structure ^[10] .

The village has a secondary school, a kindergarten ^[11] , a medical outpatient clinic (a branch of the KGBUZ Central District Hospital of Zmeinogorsk) ^[12] , a culture center, a library and a post office of Russia.

The street network of the village consists of ten streets ^[13] .