Belovodsk

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Belovodsk
Belovodsk
Belovodsk coat of arms
Belovodsk (Kyrgyzstan)
Belovodsk
Belovodsk
Basic data
State : KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan
Territory : Bye
Coordinates : 42 ° 50 ′  N , 74 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 49 ′ 48 ″  N , 74 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 732  m
Residents : 21,275 (2009)
Structure and administration
Community type : Village
Center of Belovodsk, looking west towards Kara-Balta

Belovodsk ( Kyrgyz Беловодск ; Russian Беловодское / Belovodskoje; scientific transliteration Belovodskoe ) is a place in the Tschüi region (Чүй, scientific transliteration Čùj ) in Kyrgyzstan with 21,275 inhabitants (2009).

Belovodsk is the administrative seat of the Moskovsky Raion and is located about 30 km west of Bishkek . Belovodsk is on the European route 40 ( M39 ).

history

In 1918 Belovodsk was the starting point for a failed counter-revolution against the Bolsheviks . In Bishkek today a monument in the form of a red granite obelisk commemorates these events.

church

Evangelical Lutheran

A parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kyrgyz Republic has existed in Belovodsk since the mid-1960s . Due to the strong emigration of Germans from Russia , there was an interruption in community life in the 1990s. The new beginning and rebuilding of the community took place from the year 2000. In 2001 the municipality was officially registered.

traffic

The city is on the Lugovoi – Bishkek railway line .

sons and daughters of the town

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Population and Housing Census 2009 ( Memento from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Kyrgyzstan
  2. Doris Krause / Michael Hübner, big, small, old, new ... The communities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kyrgyzstan in brief portraits , in: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kyrgyzstan , special issue Lutheran Service. Journal of the Martin-Luther-Bund , 55th year, 2019, issue 2, pp. 8–11