Balakirevo

Urban-type settlement Balakirewo Балакирево flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Vladimir Rajon Alexandrov First mention 1715 Urban-type settlement since 1977 population 10,076 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49244 Post Code 601630 License Plate 33 OKATO 17 205 552 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 30 '  N , 38 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 30 '25 "  N , 38 ° 51' 5"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Vladimir Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Balakirewo ( Russian Бала́кирево , wiss. Transliteration Balakirevo ) is an urban-type settlement in the Vladimir Oblast ( Russia ). It has 10,076 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and belongs to the Alexandrov Rajon (district) . Its administrative center Alexandrov is located around 20 km southwest and the regional capital Vladimir 189 km southeast of Balakirewo.

history

Balakirevo Railway Station

The place was mentioned as a small village around 1715 and probably got its name after the first owner Ivan Balakirew. After that, the property belonged to a secret secretary of Tsar Peter I.

The village only gained greater importance from 1870, when the Moscow - Yaroslavl section of the later Trans-Siberian Railway was moved through it . A train station was built and, from the early 20th century, residential quarters based on the small-town model were built near it.

In 1977 Balakirewo received urban-type settlement status. In the 1980s, the population of the place was for the first time over 10,000 inhabitants, as it is today, after it had declined in the course of the 1990s.

Population development

year	Residents
1979	4.167
1989	9,470
2002	9,141
2010	10,076

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

A mechanical engineering company ( Mechanikwerke Balakirewo , Russian Балакиревский механический завод ) has been based in Balakirewo since 1970 . There are also around a dozen smaller industrial companies, e.g. B. a cable factory, a pipe and a valve factory.

The Balakirewo station on the Trans-Siberian Railway serves as a regional station for trains to and from Alexandrov on the one hand and Rostov and Yaroslavl on the other. Four pairs of trains also run daily to the Yaroslavl station in Moscow.

Sons and Daughters of Balakirewo

• Anna Schchukina (* 1987), Russian ice hockey player

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)