Belaya Kalitwa

city Belaya Kalitwa Белая Калитва flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Rostov Rajon Belaya Kalitwa mayor Oleg Eduardowitsch Kajudin Founded 1703 Earlier names Ust-Belokalitvenskaja (up to 193x) City since 1958 surface 87  km² population 43,651 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 502 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 40  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86313 Post Code 34704x License Plate 61, 161 OKATO 60 206 501 Website admkalitva.ru Geographical location Coordinates 48 ° 10 '  N , 40 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 10 '0 "  N , 40 ° 47' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Rostov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Belaja Kalitwa ( Russian Бе́лая Калитва́ ) is a Russian city ​​with 43,651 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Rostov region .

geography

Belaya Kalitwa is located on the eastern bank of the Seversky Donets River , at the mouth of the Kalitwa tributary . The distance to the regional capital Rostov-on-Don is almost 170 km, the closest city is Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, 50 km from Belaya Kalitwa . The surrounding landscape is characterized by the woodless steppe area of the Donets Basin.

history

The place was founded in 1703 as Cossack Stanitsa , which originally had the name Ust-Belokalitvenskaja , which translates as "(Stanitsa at the) mouth of the White Kalitwa" means. The river was called white due to the chalky rock on its banks. Until the 20th century, the place was predominantly inhabited by Don Cossacks.

With the development of industry in the first half of the 20th century, the place became a workers' settlement. On March 7, 1923, the place was the first administrative center of a Rajon , which initially existed until it was annexed to the Shakhty Rajon on August 20, 1931 and was spun off again on October 8, 1934. In the 1930s at the latest, the current name for the place became established, and on April 29, 1941 it received the status of an urban-type settlement .

During the attack on the Soviet Union in World War II, Belaya Kalitwa was occupied by German troops from July 20, 1942 to January 19, 1943. During this time, a forced labor camp was set up in the district of Forschtadt ( Форштадт , from German suburb , from 1912 at the newly built railway station south of the town on the other side of the Kalitwa and incorporated in 1925), in which the civilian population expelled from Stalingrad by German troops was set up for the Work assignment was selected. Anyone who was out of the question for work in Germany was “sent into the steppe” , formally on a hundred-kilometer march towards Kalatsch-on-Don , which, given the icy temperatures in the winter of 1942/43, amounted to a death sentence. For the time of the occupation, the spelling Forstadt , Forschstadt or Forchstadt can also be found for the place (for the actual “Forschtadt”, but also for the whole of Belaja Kalitwa) .

On August 29, 1958, Belaya Kalitwa received city status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	8,198
1959	23,533
1970	30,857
1979	38.038
1989	47,803
2002	47,347
2010	43,651

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

The most important industrial company in Belaja Kalitwa is the aluminum metallurgy plant BKMPO . Further branches of industry are mechanical engineering, the food industry and coal mining in the nearby eastern part of the Donets Basin .

The M21 trunk road , which is the main road connection for Belaya Kalitwa, runs near the city . There is also a train station with train connections to Rostov-on-Don, among others.

sons and daughters of the town

• Alexander Kowaljow (* 1975), canoeist
• Roman Sarubin (* 1976), canoeist
• Roman Adamow (* 1982), football player
• Michail Tamonow (* 1992), canoeist

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. ↑ ^{a b c} History of the Rajons and its administration  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Belaya Kalitwa district administration (Russian)  
3. ↑ Local history on kalitva.ru (Russian)
4. ↑ Etienne François, Hagen Schulze (ed.): German places of memory II . CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47223-0 , p. 341 .
5. ^ ^{A b} Gert C. Lübbers: The 6th German army and the civilian population of Stalingrad . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte . Vol. 54, No. I , 2006, p. 87-123 ( online [PDF]).
6. ↑ Erich v. Manstein: Lost victories . 18th edition. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-7637-5253-9 , pp. 329 .

Web links

• Belaja Kalitwa on mojgorod.ru (Russian)