Poldarsa (settlement) explained

Official Name:Poldarsa
Native Name:Полдарса
Settlement Type:Settlement
Pushpin Map:Russia Vologda Oblast#Russia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Russia
Subdivision Name1:Vologda Oblast
Subdivision Name3:Velikoustyugsky District
Subdivision Type4:Municipality
Utc Offset1:+3:00
Coordinates:60.5833°N 68°W[1]

Poldarsa (Russian: Полдарса) is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Opokskoye Rural Settlement, Velikoustyugsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 1,447 as of 2002.[2] There are 23 streets.[3]

Geography

Poldarsa is located 66 km southwest of Veliky Ustyug (the district's administrative centre) by road. Poldarsa (village) is the nearest rural locality.[4]

Paleontology

A Late Permian (Severodvinian stage) outcrop with numerous fossils is located on the floodplain of the left bank of the Sukhona river, in front of eastern part of Poldarsa. Numerous ostracod and bivalve shells, bones and coprolites of fishes and chroniosuchid Suchonica vladimiri were collected from these deposits. Due to the presence of chroniosuchids, this locality was assigned to Kotelnichsky subcomplex.[5]

Notes and References

  1. https://mapdata.ru/vologodskaya-oblast/velikoustyugskiy-rayon/poselok-poldarsa/ Поселок Полдарса на карте
  2. Данные переписи 2002 года: таблица 2С. М.: Федеральная служба государственной статистики, 2004.
  3. https://mapdata.ru/vologodskaya-oblast/velikoustyugskiy-rayon/poselok-poldarsa/ Поселок Полдарса на карте
  4. http://allroutes.ru/rasstoyanie_poldarsa_velikij-ustjug Расстояние от Полдарсы до Великого Устюга
  5. V.K. Golubev, A.A. Kurkin, A.G. Sennikov. 2015. On the geological age of the Sundyr faunal assemblage of Permian tetrapods from the East European platform. Учёные записки Казанского университета. 157. 1. 49-58. ru. https://web.archive.org/web/20220331230139/https://kpfu.ru/portal/docs/F1265830746/157_1_est_4.pdf. 2022-03-31. live.