Barabinsk

city Barabinsk Барабинск flag Federal district Siberia Oblast Novosibirsk Rajon Barabinsk mayor Alexander Wassiljewitsch Kibalnikow Founded 1893 City since 1917 surface 70  km² population 30,394 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 434 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 115  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38361 Post Code 632330-632338 License Plate 54, 154 OKATO 50 405 Website администрация-барабинска.рф Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 21 '  N , 78 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 21 '0 "  N , 78 ° 21' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Novosibirsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Barabinsk ( Russian Бара́бинск ) is a city in the Novosibirsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 30,394 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Barabinsk is located in a steppe area, the Barabasteppe (Russian Барабинская степь / Barabinskaja step ) with an extension of 117,000 km², which extends between the rivers Irtysh and Ob in the southeast of the West Siberian lowlands , and is named after this. The city is located about 300 kilometers west of the oblast capital Novosibirsk .

Ten kilometers north of Barabinsk is the somewhat larger town of Kuibyshev on the Om River , which later flows into the Irtysh near Omsk .

Barabinsk is the administrative center of the Barabinsk Raion of the same name .

history

Barabinsk was established in 1893 as a station settlement in connection with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway . Operations on this section began in 1896.

City rights were granted as early as 1917.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1,900
1926	9,800
1939	29,988
1959	40,878
1970	37,274
1979	37.286
1989	36,501
2002	32.501
2010	30,394

Note: Census data (1897–1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

The city has a local museum.

Economy and Infrastructure

Barabinsk railway station

Barabinsk is an important station on the Trans-Siberian Railway (3035 km from Moscow ) with a large locomotive depot.

In addition to extensive railway workshops (locomotive and wagon repairs), there are companies in the city in the food and building materials industries.

The M51 trunk road from Chelyabinsk to Novosibirsk, part of the trans-Siberian road connection, bypasses Barabinsk to the south on this section a few years ago .

Personalities

• Anatoly Martschenko (1938–1986), writer, civil rights activist and dissident ; born in Barabinsk

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)

Web links

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

• Barabinsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)