Dalmatowo

city Dalmatowo Dalmatova flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Kurgan Rajon Dalmatovsky Founded 1651 City since 1947 surface 170  km² population 13,911 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 82 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 100  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35252 Post Code 641730 License Plate 45 OKATO 37 208 501 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 16 '  N , 62 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 16 '0 "  N , 62 ° 55' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Kurgan Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Dalmatowo ( Russian Далматово ) is a city in Kurgan Oblast ( Russia ) with 13,911 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located east of the Urals , in the southwest of the West Siberian lowlands , about 190 km northwest of the Oblast capital Kurgan , on the left bank of the river Isset near the confluence of the Tetscha . The climate is continental.

The city is the administrative center of the dalmatovo Rajons Dalmatowski .

Dalmatowo is located on the Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk) - Kurgan railway line, which opened continuously in 1933 .

history

Dalmatowo was founded in 1651 as a “suburb” or trading settlement (Sloboda) at the Dalmatian Assumption Monastery founded in 1644 (Далматовский Успенский мужской монастырь / Dalmatowski Uspenski muschskoi monastyr; named after its founder, Dalmatovsky muschskoi monastyr). Later the village was called Dalmatovskoye (Далматовское). At the beginning of the 18th century, the place became one of the first centers of Russian Orthodoxy and culture beyond the Urals . In the 18th century, Dalmatovskoye was also a place of exile for the Old Orthodox .

Early color photograph of the old Dalmatowo by Prokudin-Gorski (1912)

In 1781 the place was first given city rights under the name Dalmatow, but lost it again in 1797 (until the early 20th century, both versions of the place name, Dalmatow and Dalmatowo, were used in parallel). In the 19th century it was known as the regional center for growing vegetables (cucumbers) and collecting and selling wild hops .

In October 1913, a branch line of the Trans-Siberian Railway from Bogdanowitsch via Kamensk-Uralsky (Sinarskaya station, what was then Kamensk or Kamensky Sawod) to Shadrinsk through the town. This line was later expanded to become the direct Trans-Siberian cross-connection Yekaterinburg - Kurgan, which opened in 1933.

In 1947 the place received city rights again.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	564
1939	7,727
1959	11,011
1970	12,583
1979	15,325
1989	17,494
2002	14,972
2010	13,911

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In Dalmatowo there is a history museum named after the local historian Alexander Syrjanow (1830–1884), who was born nearby and died here .

The Dormition of the Virgin (Uspenski) Monastery, which was closed and badly damaged during the Soviet era, is back in operation. Various buildings from the beginning of the 18th century, a. a. the monastery wall have been preserved and are being restored.

economy

In Dalmatowo there are companies in the mechanical engineering, light (carpets, furniture) and food industries. Grain growing and cattle breeding are practiced in the area.

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)

Web links

Commons : Dalmatowo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Dalmatowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)