Kudanga Explained

Official Name:Kudanga
Native Name:Куданга
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Russia Vologda Oblast#Russia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Russia
Subdivision Name1:Vologda Oblast
Subdivision Name3:Nikolsky District
Subdivision Type4:Municipality
Utc Offset1:+3:00
Coordinates:59.2833°N 61°W[1]

Kudanga (Russian: Куданга) is a rural locality (a village) in Permasskoye Rural Settlement, Nikolsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 25 as of 2002.[2]

Geography

Kudanga is located 53 km southwest of Nikolsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kalauz is the nearest rural locality.[3]

Paleontology

Fossils of the Early Triassic temnospondyls were found in Kudanga. Two specimens of Wetlugasaurus and one specimen of indeterminate trematosaurid were discovered in the Lower Olenekian deposits.[4]

Notes and References

  1. https://mapdata.ru/vologodskaya-oblast/nikolskiy-rayon/derevnya-kudanga/ Деревня Куданга на карте
  2. Данные переписи 2002 года: таблица 2С. М.: Федеральная служба государственной статистики, 2004.
  3. http://allroutes.ru/rasstoyanie_nikolsk-35_kudanga Расстояние от Никольска до Куданги
  4. Book: Novikov A.V.. 2018. Early Triassic amphibians of Eastern Europe: evolution of dominant groups and peculiarities of changing communities. Moscow: RAS. 295. ru. 978-5-906906-71-7. Web site: Archive copy . 2023-08-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231208092959/https://new.ras.ru/upload/iblock/7de/j85vtubof3mlf81izrqq9u9oh9eb5lrh.pdf . 2023-12-08 .