Bogdanovich (city)
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Bogdanowitsch ( Russian Богдано́вич ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 30,670 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the west of the West Siberian lowlands , about 100 km east of the Oblast capital Yekaterinburg on the Kunara , a right tributary of the Pyschma in the Ob river system .
Bogdanowitsch is the center of an urban district of the same name (until 2006 Rajon ), which belongs to the southern administrative district ( Южный управленческий округ / Juschny uprawlentscheski okrug ) within the oblast .
Bogdanowitsch is located on the Yekaterinburg - Tyumen railway, which opened in 1885 (which became part of the northern route of the Trans-Siberian Railway with the continuation from Tyumen to Omsk in 1913 ), the branch line to Kamensk-Uralsky , which was also opened in 1885, and the line to Alapayevsk, which opened in 1918 (- Serov ).
history
Bogdanowitsch was built between 1883 and 1885 as a station settlement during the construction of the Yekaterinburg - Tyumen railway line and was named after the Russian general Yevgeny Bogdanowitsch , an advocate of the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. In 1947 the place received city rights.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1939 | 8,129 |
| 1959 | 19,147 |
| 1970 | 23,648 |
| 1979 | 30,849 |
| 1989 | 35,983 |
| 2002 | 32,856 |
| 2010 | 30,670 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
The city center has been preserved as an architectural ensemble from the founding years.
There has been a local history museum since 1977 and a Stepan Shchipachev literature museum since 1994 (the poet was born nearby).
economy
In the city there are factories for refractory materials , railway sleepers , porcelain and animal feed as well as the food industry.
sons and daughters of the town
- Viktor Kravchenko (* 1943), admiral and former commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and chief of the main staff of the Russian Navy
- Yevgeny Kulikow (* 1950), speed skater and Olympic 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
- Official portal of the city district (Russian)
- Bogdanowitsch on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
