Gulkevichi
city
Gulkevichi
Гулькевичи
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List of cities in Russia |
Gulkewitschi ( Russian Гулькевичи ) is a city with 35,244 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia .
location
Gulkewitschi is located in the foothills of the Caucasus in the eastern part of the Krasnodar Territory, about 150 km from its capital Krasnodar . It is located near the left bank of the Kuban River . The closest city is Kropotkin, 20 km northwest of Gulkewitschi .
history
The city was founded in 1875, when the railway line from Rostov-on-Don to Vladikavkaz was opened, on which Gulkewitschi was initially laid out as a station settlement. The place name was chosen after the family name of the then local landowner Nikolai Gulkewitsch. Despite the railway connection, the settlement was still a poor and backward village until the 1920s. When several factories were built here in the course of the industrialization of the Soviet Union , Gulkewitschi was developed as a workers' settlement. In 1961 it received city status.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 8,247 |
1959 | 20,280 |
1970 | 22,052 |
1979 | 27,290 |
1989 | 31,668 |
2002 | 35.141 |
2010 | 35,244 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
Gulkewitschi is located near the M29 trunk road and on an important southern Russian railway line. Although Gulkewitschi Rajon , like large parts of the Krasnodar region, is dominated by agriculture, there are several industrial companies in the city, including two reinforced concrete factories, a building materials factory and food processing plants.
sons and daughters of the town
- Leonid Nasarenko (* 1955), former Soviet football player
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
Web links
- Website of the Gulkevichi Raion Administration (Russian)
- Gulkewitschi on mojgorod.ru (Russian)