En Name: | Seltso |
Ru Name: | Сельцо |
Coordinates: | 53.3678°N 34.0978°W |
Map Label Position: | bottom |
Image Coa: | Coat_of_arms_of_Seltco_(Bryansk_oblast).gif |
Federal Subject: | Bryansk Oblast |
Adm Data As Of: | January 2013 |
Adm City Jur: | Seltsovsky Urban Administrative Okrug (town of oblast significance) |
Adm Ctr Of: | Seltsovsky Urban Administrative Okrug |
Inhabloc Cat: | Town |
Mun Data As Of: | August 2012 |
Urban Okrug Jur: | Seltso Urban Okrug |
Urban Okrug Jur Ref: | [1] |
Mun Admctr Of: | Seltso Urban Okrug |
Area As Of: | April 2011 |
Area Km2: | 33.08 |
Pop 2010Census: | 17934 |
Current Cat Date: | 1990 |
Dialing Codes: | 4832 |
Date: | February 2012 |
Seltso (ru|Сельцо́, lit. little village) is a town in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, located on the Desna River 22km (14miles) northwest of Bryansk. Population: 17,600 (1970).
Seltso was granted urban-type settlement status in 1938 and that of a town in 1990.
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as Seltsovsky Urban Administrative Okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[2] As a municipal division, Seltsovsky Urban Administrative Okrug is incorporated as Seltso Urban Okrug.[3]
Founded in 1876 in connection with the construction of Rigo-Oryol railway (built-station Selco Gorodtsov). The first industrial plants in steel mills Seltso Kuchkina, Dreyscheva, Kitaeva. From 1886 to 1914 he worked in the Selto small metallurgical plant Guboninsky consisting of the foundry and the forge. At the beginning of the 20th century in the hamlet operated two windmills and a steam mill, 10 sawmills, soap factories. In 1905, the gendarmerie post was established for the prevention of disorder or crime in Seltso.