Alapayevsk

Federal district	Ural
Oblast	Sverdlovsk
Urban district	Alapayevsk
mayor	Stanislaw Shangin
First mention	1639
City since	1781
surface	1082 km²
population	38,192 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	35 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	135 m
Time zone	UTC + 5
Telephone code	(+7) 34346
Post Code	624600-624607
License Plate	66, 96, 196
OKATO	65 403
Website	alapaevsk.org
Geographical location
Coordinates	57 ° 51 ' N , 61 ° 42' E Coordinates: 57 ° 51 '0 " N , 61 ° 42' 0" E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Alapajewsk ( Russian Алапа́евск ) is a Russian city with 38,192 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Sverdlovsk Oblast in the central Urals , about 130 km northeast of the regional capital Yekaterinburg . It is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

Alapayevsk has been known as a village since 1639 and developed into a city in the 18th century when an ironworks was built there.

In the late spring of 1918, some members of the imperial family were exiled to Alapayevsk by the Bolsheviks . On July 18, 1918, Grand Duchess Jelisaweta Fjodorovna , Grand Dukes Vladimir Pawlowitsch Paley and Sergei Mikhailovich Romanov and the brothers Iwan , Konstantin and Igor Konstantinowitsch Romanow were murdered by the Cheka in a mine shaft near the city.

The POW camp 200 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War was located in Alapayevsk .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	8,646
1939	25,049
1959	47.103
1970	52.111
1979	49,848
1989	50,060
2002	44,263
2010	38.192

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

ТУ4 -1452 with Personalzug Alapayevsk

Alapayevsk is one of the oldest centers (1639) of iron mining and smelting as well as gold and diamond mining in the Urals. The oldest brick factory building in the middle Urals probably dates from 1704 and has been preserved, albeit in a dilapidated manner. The city is known for its mine pits and numerous factories. Alapayevsk also has the largest orphanage in the Urals.

The city is connected to the main roads and railways in the area. National and international flights take place via the Yekaterinburg Airport .

The Alapayevsk Forest Railway operates a route network with a length of around 280 kilometers, on which passenger trains run overnight several times a week. It is the largest 750 mm network in Russia.

Famous pepole

Lyubov Galkina (* 1973), sports shooter; born in Alapayevsk
Ivan Kovalev (* 1986), racing cyclist; born in Alapayevsk
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), composer; spent part of his youth in Alapayevsk, where his father was employed as a mining engineer

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)
↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.

Web links

Commons : Alapayevsk - collection of images, videos and audio files

City history (Russian)
Alapayevsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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] Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.


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