Atkarsk

city Atkarsk Аткарск coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Saratov Rajon Atkarsk mayor Yuri Koshelev Founded 1702 City since 1780 surface 10.5  km² population 25,624 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2440 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 167  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84552 Post Code 412420-412425 License Plate 64, 164 OKATO 63 404 Website www.atkarsk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 52 ′  N , 45 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  N , 45 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Saratov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Atkarsk ( Russian Атка́рск ) is a Russian city ​​with 25,624 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Saratov Oblast . It is located around 92 km northwest of the regional capital Saratov , at the confluence of the Atkara River in the Medveditsa , a left tributary of the Don .

history

Atkarsk City Hall

Since 1358 existed at the site of the present town already a settlement of the Tartars . In 1702, tsarist Russia established a military outpost with a settlement at the Atkara estuary, which was named after the river. In the beginning, mainly soldiers lived there who, in addition to guarding the outpost, also worked in agriculture . In 1774 the settlement was taken by Pugachev rebels, later it was liberated and in 1780 it received official city rights with the establishment of the Saratov governorate . At the beginning of the 19th century Atkarsk had around 1200 inhabitants.

Atkarsk train station

Until well into the 19th century Atkarsk was a very poor city, with almost no industry and purely agricultural. At the end of the 19th century, railroad construction brought an upswing when Atkarsk got a train station on the newly built line from Tambov to Saratov. This caused a considerable influx of railway workers, merchants and craftsmen, so that in 1907 around 13,000 people were already living in Atkarsk. With the railway connection, the importance of Atkarsk as a transshipment point for the grain trade also grew, which brought the city economic importance.

Even after the October Revolution , Atkarsk retained its importance as a trading center for agricultural products. Since 1928 Atkarsk has been the administrative center of Atkarsk Raion, which was founded that year.

In the city there was a prisoner of war camp 338 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War . Seriously ill were cared for in prisoner-of-war hospital 5131 .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	7,300
1926	19,348
1939	18,956
1959	27,771
1970	28,881
1979	29,112
1989	28,877
2002	27,907
2010	25,624

Note: census data

Architecture and landmarks

Architecturally worth seeing in Atkarsk is the old town, which houses some buildings from around 1900, such as the town hall, some old library and school buildings, the post office and the train station. The local museum and an arboretum with rare tree plants are further attractions .

sons and daughters of the town

• Pyotr Oreschin (1887–1938), poet
• Valeria (* 1968 as Alla Perfilowa ), singer

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 : Atkarsk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Atkarsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• http://www.rustowns.com/atkarsk/