Angren (Uzbekistan)
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Angren Ангрен |
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 Uzbekistan
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| Province: | Toshkent | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 1 ' N , 70 ° 9' E | ||
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| Height : | 940 m | ||
| Residents : | 125,149 (2009) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+998) 7066 | ||
Angren ( Russian Ангрен ) is an independent city in Uzbekistan , 78 kilometers (as the crow flies) southeast of the capital Tashkent . It has a population of 125,149 (as of January 1, 2009).
history
The city was founded in 1942 during World War II . During the war there were some POW camps in and around the city; and Japanese prisoners of war were interned here. The prisoners of war were used to build the city. Angren received city rights in 1946.
Until the collapse of the Soviet Union , Angren was one of the more modern cities in Uzbekistan. Some suburbs were mostly inhabited by Russian Germans and are now almost deserted.
economy
Angren is a center of Uzbek coal mining, gold is also extracted . There is also a large coal-fired power station and a kaolin factory .
In parallel to coal (which is mined in open-cast mining , underground mining and underground gasification processes), other valuable minerals are mined: kaolin , limestone and quartz sand .
sons and daughters of the town
- Valery Tikhonenko (born 1964), Russian basketball player and coach
- Oleg Perepetschonow (* 1975), Russian weightlifter
- Alexander Heinrich (* 1984), Uzbek football player
- Ilyas Zetulayev (* 1984), Uzbek football player
- Violetta Schurawlow (* 1986), German actress
- Yevgeny Pomasan (* 1989), Russian football player
See also
literature
- Batygin, AG; Formirovanie i kompleksnoe razvitie gornopromyshlennykh raæionov Uzbekistana: na primere Angren-Almalykskogo gornopromyshlennogo raæiona; Tashkent 1985; (Mining)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
