Asbestos (city)

Federal district	Ural
Oblast	Sverdlovsk
Urban district	asbestos
mayor	Vladimir Suzloparov
Founded	1889
City since	1933
surface	107 km²
population	68,893 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	644 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	220 m
Time zone	UTC + 5
Telephone code	(+7) 34365
Post Code	624260-624273
License Plate	66, 96, 196
OKATO	65 409
Website	www.asbestadm.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates	57 ° 0 ′ N , 61 ° 28 ′ E Coordinates: 57 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N , 61 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Asbestos ( Russian Асбе́ст , until 1933 Куделька / Kudelka ) is a Russian city with 68,893 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Sverdlovsk Oblast . It was named for its asbestos industry .

Geographical location

The city is located in the south of the Sverdlovsk Oblast on the (Great) Reft , a right tributary of the Pyschma in the Ob river system , on the eastern slopes of the Urals , around 80 km northeast of the regional capital Yekaterinburg . The closest town is Zarechny , 20 km south of Asbestos.

history

At the asbestos entrance

In 1885, the development of an asbestos deposit near today's city began. In 1889 it was founded as a settlement called Kudelka . In 1933 it received the status of a town and its current name.

In asbestos, there were POW camps 84 and 314 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War . There was a cemetery for deceased prisoners of war and civil internees from various nations with over 15,000 dead, mostly in mass graves. There was also a Soviet gulag in asbestos. The Baschenowo-ITL (corrective labor camp) existed from May 1950 to April 1953. Up to 7,700 people were imprisoned in the camp who were used in the construction of asbestos factories, in asbestos extraction and in road, civil and housing construction.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	28,906
1959	60,053
1970	75.508
1979	78,673
1989	84,470
2002	76,328
2010	68,893

Note: census data

economy

Nowadays, asbestos is a large industrial center with Uralasbestos joint stock company as the main company. Other factories include UralATI , Saretschny , Asbostroi , the poultry processor Asbestovskaya and a reinforced concrete manufacturer . Asbestos, bricks , porcelain , furniture, and metal structures , among other things, are produced in asbestos .

Infrastructure

In the city there is the Ural Asbestos Stadium with a capacity of 10,000 spectators. Educational institutions include music schools, an art school, an Olympic school, a scientific institute, vocational schools, mining and business schools. Asbestos has a geological museum and a local museum.

Personalities

Lasar Kaganowitsch (1893–1991), politician, worked in asbestos
Ferdinand-Wilhelm von Stein-Liebenstein zu Barchfeld (1895–1953), German Air Force General, died in asbestos in a POW camp
Arthur Kullmer (1896–1953), German general, died in asbestos in a prisoner of war camp
Viktor Bassargin (* 1957 in Asbestos), politician, 2008–2012 Russian Minister for Regional Development, since 2012 Governor of the Perm Region
Robert Ihly (* 1963 in Asbestos), German athlete
Yegor Mechonzew (* 1984 in Asbestos), boxer

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.
↑ Baschenowo-ITL in the GULAG Internet portal of Memorial Deutschland e. V.

Web links

Commons : City Asbestos - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Official website of the city administration (Russian)
Unofficial city website (Russian)
Asbestos 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.

[3] Baschenowo-ITL in the GULAG Internet portal of Memorial Deutschland e. V.


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