Mariinsk

city Mariinsk Мариинск coat of arms Federal district Siberia Oblast Kemerovo Rajon Mariinsk Founded 1698 Earlier names Kijskoje (until 1857) City since 1856 surface 48  km² population 40,526 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 844 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38443 Post Code 652150-652156 License Plate 42, 142 OKATO 32 422 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 13 '  N , 87 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 13 '0 "  N , 87 ° 45' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Kemerovo Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Mariinsk ( Russian Мариинск ) is a city in the central Siberian Oblast Kemerovo ( Russia ) with 40,526 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the plain north of the Kuznetsk Alatau , about 140 kilometers northeast (as the crow flies) of the Oblast capital Kemerovo , on the left Chulym tributary Kija .

Mariinsk is the administrative center of the Mariinsk Raion of the same name .

history

Mariinsk railway station

In 1698, instead of an originally Selkup settlement, the second oldest Russian town in the region (after Kuznetsk ) was the village of Kijskoje ( Кийское ), named after the river . In the 18th century the Moscow wing ran through the village.

In 1856, Kijskoje was elevated to the status of a city as the administrative center of an okrug of Tomsk Governorate . In 1857 the city was given its current name in honor of Tsarina Marija Alexandrovna - wife of Alexander II and née Marie von Hessen-Darmstadt .

With the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway through the town at the end of the 19th century, its importance and population continued to grow.

From 1929 to 1960 the Siblag prison camp ( Sibirski ITL , Siberian Camp ) existed in the Gulag system , the administration of which was in Mariinsk for the longest period (temporarily in Novosibirsk ). For example, the astronomer Yevgeny Perepelkin (* 1906, also Perepelkin ) was imprisoned here, after whom the lunar crater Perepelkin is named, and who was shot in Mariinsk on January 13, 1938.

Population development

year	Residents
1858	3,671
1897	8,216
1939	22,278
1959	40,793
1970	39,699
1979	39.504
1989	40,956
2002	42,977
2010	41,526

Note : from 1897 census data

Culture and sights

In Mariinsk there is a local history museum with an attached memorial museum for the Soviet writer Vladimir Chivilichin (1924–1981), who was born in Mariinsk and who wrote a number of works mainly dealing in Siberia.

Economy and Infrastructure

In the city there are wood processing, light and food industries.

Mariinsk is an important station on the Trans-Siberian Railway (3713 km from Moscow ). It is the westernmost station of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Railway Directorate . The further route towards Novosibirsk belongs to the West Siberian Railway . In addition, the traction current system in Mariinsk is changing from 3000  V direct current of the West Siberian to 25 kV 50 Hz alternating current of the Krasnoyarsk Railway, so that the locomotives are changed here on all trains.

The R255 trunk road , which is part of the transcontinental road connection from Novosibirsk to Irkutsk and from which the regional road R400 to Tomsk branches off , also runs through Mariinsk .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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)
2. ^ Siblag in the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.
3. ↑ Communication of the KGB of the USSR on the fate of Pulkovo astronomers from February 10, 1989 (Russian)

Web links

Commons : Mariinsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Mariinsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)