Balakovo

city Balakovo Балаково coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Saratov Rajon Balakovo Mayoress Natalia Jurjewna Krassilnikowa Founded 1762 City since 1913 surface 81  km² population 199,690 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2465 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 24  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 8453 Post Code 413820-413866 License Plate 64, 164 OKATO 63 407 Website mo-balakovo.ru Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 0 ′  N , 47 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 47 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Saratov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Balakowo ( Russian Балако́во ) is a city with 199,690 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Saratov Oblast in Russia , about 800 km southeast of Moscow. Balakowo is located 161 kilometers northeast of the regional capital Saratov , on the left meadow bank of the Volga , which is dammed here to form the Saratower reservoir .

history

Balakowo was founded in 1762 in connection with the resettlement of the Old Believers operated by Tsarina Catherine II . In 1913 Balakowo was granted city status. In the 1960s, an extensive chemical industry developed in Balakowo. The city grew strongly in the years 1967-70 due to the construction of the Saratov hydropower plant on the Volga.

Due to the poor economic situation, the city received funding from the Russian state for the construction of its own airport ( Balakowo-Süd ), which should be larger than the airport of the provincial capital Saratov. However, the money ran out during the construction work so that the airport remained much smaller than originally planned.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	23,179
1959	36,428
1970	103,495
1979	151,560
1989	197.391
2002	200,470
2010	199,690

Note: census data

Further educational institutions

• Branch of the Saratov State Law Academy
• Branch of the Saratov Polytechnic Institute
• Institute of Engineering, Technology and Control of the Saratov State Technical University

Nuclear power plant

The Balakowo nuclear power plant of the Rosenergoatom company is located in Balakowo with four pressurized water reactor blocks of the VVER-1000 type , commissioned in 1986, 1988, 1989, 1993, with a net electrical output of 950 MWe per reactor. The reactor supplier is the Mintjaschmasch company. The steam turbines were supplied by Kharkovsky Turbinni Zavod.

The Balakowo NPP started building a waste treatment center in cooperation with RWE NUKEM as early as 1994. However, due to the financial crisis in Russia, work was suspended for an extended period until it resumed in mid-2000. The waste treatment center has now been handed over and will go into "hot" operation in the near future.

Sports

Balakowo is one of the Russian strongholds in speedway sports. Not only because of their involvement in the Russian professional speedway league, but also because important races for the Speedway World Championship have already taken place several times in the Speedway Stadium in Balakovo.

sons and daughters of the town

• Ivan Korownikow (1902–1976), Colonel General
• Vladimir Peregudow (1902–1967), scientist, shipbuilder and captain
• Anatoli Utkin (1944–2010), historian and political scientist
• Svetlana Prudnikowa (* 1967), chess player
• Sergei Proswirnin (* 1970), cross-country summer biathlete
• Andrei Kowalenko (born 1970), ice hockey player
• Olga Anissimowa (* 1972), biathlete
• Natalja Sokol (* 1980), activist and artist
• Oleg Komissarow (* 1982), boxer
• Anastasia Karpova (* 1984), singer in the girl band Serebro
• Dmitri Kugryschew (* 1990), ice hockey player

See also

• List of cities in Saratov Oblast

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. ↑ Коровников Иван Терентьевич , encyclopedia.mil.ru (Russian)

Web links

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

• Balakowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• City unofficial website (Russian)