Armavir (Russia)

city Armavir Армавир flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia region Krasnodar Urban district Armavir mayor Andrei Chartschenko (acting) Founded 1839 City since 1914 surface 280  km² population 188,832 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 674 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 190  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86137 Post Code 352900-352947 License Plate 23, 93, 123 OKATO 03 405 Website www.armawir.ru Geographical location Coordinates 45 ° 0 ′  N , 41 ° 7 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 41 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Krasnodar Territory

List of cities in Russia

Armavir ( Russian Армавир , in English transliteration also: Armavir ) is a major city in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia with 188,832 inhabitants (14 October 2010).

Geography and climate

Armavir is located in the foothills of the Caucasus on the left bank of the Kuban River , not far from the eastern administrative border of the Krasnodar Territory to the Stavropol Territory . The nearest city is Novokubansk 12 kilometers northwest; the regional capital Krasnodar is located 202 km west of Armavir. The Urup River flows into the Kuban at Armavir.

The area subordinated to the city has existed since 1996, in addition to the actual city of Armavir, from three rural villages (Savetny, Krasnaya Polyana, Staraya Stanitsa).

The city is located in the southern Russian continental climate zone and has an annual rainfall of around 500 to 550 millimeters. The coldest month is January with an average temperature of –3.5 ° C, the warmest is July with over 30 ° C.

history

Armavir railway station

The place was founded in 1839 and originally served the resettlement of several hundred Armenian families from the areas of the present-day Karachay-Cherkessia republic . The reason for this resettlement was the frequent armed conflicts between the Russian army and the predominantly Muslim mountain peoples of the Caucasus, by whom the Christian Armenians felt threatened.

Until 1848, the new place was called Armjanski aul (Russian Армя́нский ау́л ), literally "Armenian Aul ". Then he received the name Armawirski aul (Russian Армави́рский ау́л ) after the ancient Armenian city Armavir .

Armavir experienced a significant boom in the 1870s when the important railway line that was to connect Rostov-on-Don with Vladikavkaz was laid through the town . The place received the status of a village (selo), whose population - in addition to Armenians, increasingly also Russians - mainly traded in grain. At the beginning of the 20th century Armavir was economically the second strongest place in the Kuban region after the Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk . Armavir received city status in 1914.

Both in the Russian Civil War (1918-1922) and in World War II Armavir was fought over and suffered destruction. The German occupation of the city lasted from August 1942 to January 1943.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	18,113
1939	83,651
1959	110.994
1970	145.384
1979	161,539
1989	160,983
2002	193.964
2010	188,832

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

As a result of the fertile surrounding area, food processing dominates the local industry. Since the second half of the 20th century, mechanical engineering and equipment manufacturing have also developed in Armavir.

Armavir is a transport hub along the Rostov-on-Don to Baku railway and the Armavir to Tuapse branch line , both of which are operated by the North Caucasian Railway . An oil pipeline from Azerbaijan also runs through the city. The trolleybus system that has existed since 1973 plays an important role in inner-city public transport .

The Russian Armed Forces maintain a missile radar early warning system in Armavir.

Sports

In football, the city is represented by the Torpedo Armawir association.

Further educational institutions

• Armavir Military Institute of Aviation
• Armavir Orthodox Social Institute
• Branch of the Kuban State University
• Branch of the Institute for Modern Technologies and Economics
• Institute of Finance and Economics Armavir
• Armavir State Pedagogical University

Town twinning

Armawir lists the following twin cities :

• Armavir , Armenia, since 2003
• Gomel , Belarus, since 2009

sons and daughters of the town

• George Avakian (1919-2017), music producer
• Vladimir Pikalov (1924–2003), Soviet Colonel General
• Nikita Simonjan (* 1926), Soviet football player and coach
• Valentina Tolkunova (1946-2010), singer
• Andrei Judin (* 1962), Lieutenant General
• Dmitri Barsuk (* 1980), volleyball and beach volleyball player
• Oxana Ljapina (* 1980), artistic gymnast
• Alina Gridnewa (* 1992), freestyle skier

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. ↑ Юдин Андрей Вячеславович , structure.mil.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ Oksana Lyapina in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Web links

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

• Official site of the city of Armavir (Russian)
• Entry on the website of the Krasnodar Territory (Russian)
• Armavir on mojgorod.ru (Russian)