Smolenskaya school 1,Russia |
2. The living things
There are 145 million people in Russia.
22415 people
live in our Smolenskii district.
The population
of the village of Smolenskoye is 8792 people.
The table shows that
the population is declining.
|
Population |
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|
1997[2] |
1998[2] |
1999[2] |
2000[2] |
2001[2] |
2002[2] |
2003[2] |
|
9722 |
↘9686 |
↘9655 |
↗9783 |
↘9755 |
↘9671 |
↘9362 |
|
2004[2] |
2005[2] |
2006[2] |
2007[2] |
2008[2] |
2009[2] |
2010[3] |
|
↗9425 |
↗9436 |
↘9340 |
↗9491 |
↘9445 |
↗9454 |
↘8985 |
|
2011[1] |
2012[1] |
2013[1] |
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|
↘8949 |
↘8929 |
↘8792 |
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There are a lot
of elderly people in the village as young people prefer to move to the cities
and towns. Elderly grandparents prefer to live with their families. Only those
who do not have relatives live in the nursing houses.
Most of people
are engaged in the agriculture work.
We grow wheat, sunflowers, rye, sugar-beet,
potatoes and other vegetables. There are also cattle-farms with cows and
horses.
Moose, bears, wolves,
foxes, hares live in the forests.
There are
different species of river fishes: pikes, perches, crucians and catfishes.
Tomtits, sparrows, crows, magpies live in the village and some wild ducks live near the lakes.