Belogorsk
city
Belogorsk
Белогорск
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List of cities in Russia |
Belogorsk ( Russian Белого́рск ) is the second largest city in the Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 68,249 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). It is located on the Tom River , about 100 kilometers northeast of the city and oblast capital of Blagoveshchensk on the Chinese border . Belogorsk is the administrative seat of the raion of the same name, but is not itself part of it, but is directly subordinate to the oblast as a district.
history
Belogorsk was founded in 1860 under the name Alexandrowskoje ( Алекса́ндровское ). The construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1913 led to the establishment of a train station, which helped the place to flourish. In 1926 the settlement was elevated to a city and was named Alexandrowsk-na-Tomi ( Алекса́ндровск-на-Томи́ ). In 1931 it was renamed Krasnopartisansk ( Краснопартиза́нск ) and in 1936 Kuibyshevka-Vostochnaja ( Ку́йбышевка-Восто́чная ), until the city was finally given its current name in 1957.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 33,697 |
1959 | 48,831 |
1970 | 56,877 |
1979 | 63,358 |
1989 | 73,435 |
2002 | 67,422 |
2010 | 68,249 |
Note : census data
At the 1989 census , 89.7% of the population were Russians , 6.1% Ukrainians , 1.2% Belarusians and 0.6% Tatars .
economy
The food industry is of great importance for the city, as is furniture, concrete and asphalt production.
culture and education
Belogorsk has a cinema, three cultural centers and five libraries. The city also has a business school, an art high school and three music schools for children.
sons and daughters of the town
- Swetlana Kljuka (* 1978), middle-distance runner
- Svetlana Cherkassova (* 1978), middle-distance runner
- Sergei Tschuchrai (* 1955), canoeist, three-time Olympic champion and three-time world champion
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- Entry on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
- Information about the city (Russian)