Anhero-Sudschensk
city
Anzhero- Sudschensk
Анжеро-Судженск
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List of cities in Russia |
Anzhero-Sudschensk ( Russian Анже́ро-Су́дженск ) is a city in the Kemerovo Oblast in Siberia ( Russia ) with 76,646 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). It is located on the Trans-Siberian Railway (approximately 3600 km), almost 3000 km east of Moscow as the crow flies .
history
The place was created in 1928 by merging the two communities Anzherka (Анжерка) and Sudschenka (Судженка). Anhero-Sudschensk received city rights in 1931 and has a local museum .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 69.008 |
1959 | 115,628 |
1970 | 106.165 |
1979 | 105.114 |
1989 | 107,951 |
2002 | 86,480 |
2010 | 76,646 |
Note: census data
economy
The most important branches of industry are mining (hard coal), mechanical engineering and the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
In the early 1930s, numerous foreign miners who had come to the Soviet Union as economic emigrants, including some Germans mainly from the Ruhr area, worked in the mining area of Anzhero-Sudschensk. A separate “colony” was set up in the city for these “guest workers”. Almost all of those who had not returned home by 1935/36 fell victim to the Stalinist purges .
sons and daughters of the town
- Anatolij Babko (1905–1968), Ukrainian-Soviet chemist
- Gerhard Benkowitz (1923–1955), resistance fighter
- Wiktor Sidjak (* 1943), four-time Olympic champion in saber fencing
See also
literature
- Wilhelm Mensing: From the Ruhr to the GULag. Victims of Stalin's mass terror from the Ruhr area. Essen 2001
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
- Entry at mojgorod.ru (Russian)