| Gorodishche Городище(Russian) | |
|---|---|
| - Urban-type settlement [1] - Work settlement [1] | |
 Location of Volgograd Oblast in Russia | |
  Gorodishche | |
| Administrative status | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Volgograd Oblast [1] |
| Administrative district | Gorodishchensky District [1] |
| Administrative center of | Gorodishchensky District [1] |
| Statistics | |
| Population (2010 Census) | 21,381 inhabitants [1] |
| Time zone | MSK (UTC+03:00) [2] |
| Founded | 1827[ citation needed ] |
| Urban-type settlement status since | 1959[ citation needed ] |
| Gorodishche on Wikimedia Commons | |
Gorodishche (Russian : Городище) is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Gorodishchensky District of Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) northwest of Volgograd. Population: 21,381 (2010 Census); [1] 19,466 (2002 Census); [3] 15,049 (1989 Census). [4]
Russian is an East Slavic language, which is official in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely used throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It was the de facto language of the Soviet Union until its dissolution on 25 December 1991. Although, nowadays, nearly three decades after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian is used in official capacity or in public life in all the post-Soviet nation-states, as well as in Israel and Mongolia, the rise of state-specific varieties of this language tends to be strongly denied in Russia, in line with the Russian World ideology.
The classification system of the types of inhabited localities in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with the classification systems in other countries.
Urban-type settlement is an official designation for a semi-urban settlement, used in several Eastern European countries. The term was historically used in Bulgaria, Poland, and the Soviet Union, and remains in use today in 10 of the post-Soviet states.
