Belowo

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city
Belove
Белово
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Federal district Siberia
Oblast Kemerovo
Urban district Belowo
head Igor Gussarov
First mention 1726
City since 1938
surface 171  km²
population 76,764 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density 449 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center 200  m
Time zone UTC + 7
Telephone code (+7) 38452
Post Code 652600-652619
License Plate 42, 142
OKATO 32 407
Website belovo42.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates 54 ° 25 '  N , 86 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 25 '0 "  N , 86 ° 18' 0"  E
Belovo (Russia)
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Situation in Russia
Beloveo (Kemerovo Oblast)
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Belowo station

Belowo ( Russian Бело́во ) is a city in the Russian Oblast Kemerovo ( Western Siberia ) with 76,764 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the west of the central part of the Kuzbass , about 150 km south of the Oblast capital Kemerovo , on the Batschat River , a tributary of the Inja . The climate is continental.

The city Belovo is the administrative center of the same name Rajons Belovo but itself belongs not to Rajon, but forms a separate urban district. In addition to the city, the urban district includes four urban-type settlements and two villages, so that the total population of the urban district Belowo is 134,512. The urban-type settlements are:

The Krasnobrodski settlement, which has belonged to Belovo since 1953 , was spun off into an independent urban district in 2006.

history

A village named Belovo was first mentioned in 1726, named after the fled serf Fjodor Below, who settled here on the banks of the Batschat. In 1855 coal mining began. In 1938 the place received city rights.

Population development

year Residents
1939 43,310
1959 106,894
1970 108.209
1979 111,819
1989 93,108
2002 82,425
2010 76,764

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Belowo is one of the industrial centers of the Kuzbass with hard coal industry, mechanical engineering, building materials industry. The Belovo thermal power station ( Беловская ГРЭС ) is located near Inskoi .

The city is on the Novosibirsk  - (or Kemerovo -) Novokuznetsk railway line . A branch line branches off here to Guryevsk and Salair .

sons and daughters of the town

See also

Individual evidence

  1. a b c 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. Roman Konstantinov in the database of Sports-Reference (English)

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