Balabanowo

city Balabanowo Балабаново flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kaluga Rajon Borovsk Chairman of the City Duma Sergei Alexejewitsch Sudakov First mention 17th century City since 1972 surface 8  km² population 26,337 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 3292 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code +7 (48438) Post Code 249000 License Plate 40 OKATO 29 206 505 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 11 ′  N , 36 ° 39 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 11 ′ 0 ″  N , 36 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaluga Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Balabanowo ( Russian Балаба́ново ) is a city in Kaluga Oblast ( Russia ) with 26,337 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 75 km northeast of the Oblast capital Kaluga on the left bank of the Protwa , a left tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .

Balabanowo is located in Borovsk Raion .

history

A village Balabanowo was first mentioned in the 17th century.

After the construction of the railway, a larger station settlement was built around 1900, which was given the status of an urban-type settlement in 1935 and town charter in 1972.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2,632
1959	3,382
1970	10,853
1979	15,449
1989	19,139
2002	23,312
2010	26,337

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In the valley of the nearby Istja River there are the remains of an ironworks from the 18th century.

Economy and Infrastructure

The important match factory Plitspitschprom (formerly Gigant ) and a packaging factory of the Finnish-Swedish company Stora Enso are located in Balabanowo .

The city is located on the Moscow - Brjansk - Kiev railway line opened in 1899 (route km 96).

The M3 Moscow - Brjansk - Ukrainian border road runs through Balabanowo (from there on towards Kiev), which is crossed here by the A108 Great Moscow Ring .

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  Residential district in Balabanowo

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  War memorial

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  Balabanowo Railway Station

Personalities

• Pafnuti Chebyshev (1821–1894), mathematician; was born in nearby Okatowo and spent his childhood there

Web links

Commons : Balabanowo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Rajons administration website (Russian)
• Balabanowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

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)