Ascha (Russia)

city Ascha Аша flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Chelyabinsk Rajon Ascha mayor Yuri Ivanovich Danilov Founded 1898 City since 1933 surface 32.4  km² population 31,881 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 984 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35159 Post Code 456010-456015 License Plate 74, 174 OKATO 75 403 Website asha-gp.ru Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 0 ′  N , 57 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 57 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Chelyabinsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Ascha ( Russian Аша́ ) is a city in the Chelyabinsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 31,881 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

view on the city

The city is located on the western edge of the Southern Urals about 380 km west of the Oblast capital Chelyabinsk in the immediate vicinity of Bashkortostan . Below the city of the same name river empties Ascha in the Sim , a right tributary of the Belaya .

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

The city is on the southern route of the Trans-Siberian Railway Moscow - Samara - Chelyabinsk - Omsk (1725 km from Moscow). The M5 Moscow - Chelyabinsk highway runs a few kilometers south of the city .

history

Ascha was created in 1898 in connection with the construction of an ironworks at the railway station of the same name that had opened a few years earlier. On June 20, 1933, the place received city rights. In Ascha there was a prisoner of war camp 130 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War .

The city gained notoriety when the Ufa railway accident occurred about ten kilometers southwest on June 4, 1989 (local time) , the worst railway accident in Russian history and one of the worst in the world. Gas leaked from a damaged pipeline ignited the moment two passenger trains were passing by. In the explosion with an estimated energy of 300 tons of TNT and the ensuing fire, 573 (according to other sources 645) of the 1,370 people (passengers and staff) on the trains were killed.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	23,566
1959	36,494
1970	37,378
1979	36,122
1989	38,646
2002	33,926
2010	31,881

Note: census data

economy

In addition to the ironworks of the AG Aschinski metallurgitscheski zavod, there is a chemical and lamp factory as well as construction and wood industries.

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. ↑ 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.

Web links

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

• Ascha on mojgorod.ru (Russian)