Alexejewka (Belgorod)

city Alexejewka Алексеевка flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Belgorod Rajon Alexeyevka head Alexei Fyodorovich Gorbatenko Founded 1685 City since 19th August 1954 surface 34  km² population 39,026 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1148 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code +7 (84671) Post Code 309850 License Plate 31 OKATO 14 410 Website gorod-alekseevka.ru Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 38 '  N , 38 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '0 "  N , 38 ° 41' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Belgorod Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Alexejewka ( Russian Алексе́евка ) is a town in Belgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 39,026 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the southern edge of the Central Russian Plate, about 300 km east of the Oblast capital Belgorod on the Tichaya Sosna , a right tributary of the Don .

Alexejewka is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

history

Alexejewka was established in 1685 (according to other sources, 1691) as a craft and trading settlement ( Sloboda ). An alternative name at this time was Alexejewskaja (Sloboda) . It was probably named after the first owner Alexei Cherkassky (1680–1742).

Coat of arms of Alexejewka during the Soviet Union

The place experienced an economic boom with the opening of the first oil mill in 1833 with the help of the serf Daniil Bokarjow from the Tula governorate , who had invented a method for extracting oil from sunflower seeds in 1829 (see also city arms). It was the first oil mill of its kind in Russia; Bokarev himself opened another in Alexejewka in 1834.

By the end of the 19th century, the village , which belonged to the Voronezh governorate until the 1920s, had more inhabitants than many cities. In 1939 Alexejewka received urban-type settlement status .

During the Second World War , Alexejewka was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in July 1942 and recaptured on January 19, 1943 by troops of the Voronezh Front of the Red Army as part of Operation Ostrogoschsk-Rossosh .

The town charter was granted on August 19, 1954.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	9,916
1959	20,148
1970	25,562
1979	31,554
1989	36,641
2002	39,312
2010	39,026

Note : census data

Holy Trinity Cathedral in Alexeyevka

Alexander Nevsky Church

Culture and sights

In Alexeyevka are the Holy Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь / Troitskaya Tserkov) of 1809, the Of Saint Dmitri of Rostov-Church ( церковь Дмитрия Ростовского / Zerkow Dmitrija Rostowskogo) of 1813 and the Alexander Nevsky 's Church ( церковь Александра Невского / Zerkow Alexandra Newskogo) from 1888.

The city has a local museum.

economy

In addition to a number of companies in the food industry (oil, sugar, canned milk, etc.), there are companies in electrical engineering and chemical device construction ( Chimmasch ) and the construction industry.

Alexejewka is located on the railway line Kharkiv - Waluiki - Balaschow - Penza, which was opened on this section in 1895 . The regional road R185 Belgorod - Korotscha - Nowy Oskol - Rossosh runs through the city .

sons and daughters of the town

• Andrei Kirilenko (1906–1990), politician
• Matwei Shaposhnikov (1906-1994), General

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)

Web links

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

• Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
• City's unofficial website (Russian)
• Alexejewka on mojgorod.ru (Russian)