Degtyarsk

city Degtyarsk Degtarsk flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Sverdlovsk Urban district Degtyarsk mayor Valery Trofimov Founded 1914 City since 1954 surface 19  km² population 15,522 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 817 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 370  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 34397 Post Code 623270-623272 License Plate 66, 96, 196 OKATO 65 484 503 Website www.degtyarsk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 42 ′  N , 60 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 56 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 60 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Degtjarsk ( Russian Дегтярск ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 15,522 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the Middle Urals , about 65 km west of the oblast capital Yekaterinburg on several smaller left tributaries of the Chusovaya , a left tributary of the Kama , not far from the Volchikha reservoir ( "Yekaterinburger Sea" ).

Degtjarsk forms an independent urban district .

The city is located on a branch line branching off the Kazan - Yekaterinburg railway at Rewda (freight traffic only).

history

In place of the present town was built in the 18th century a charcoal burners' camp in which charcoal was made for the blast furnaces in the near Rewda, as well as by-product tar (Russian djogot therefore, the first time in 1904 took place name Degtjarka ).

In 1914, the exploitation of a copper ore deposit discovered here began . Several shafts were sunk and a miners' settlement emerged, which grew rapidly, especially in the 1920s and 1930s.

The two prisoner-of-war camps 313 and 476 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War were located in Degtjarsk . On November 18, 1954, the place was given city rights under its current name.

On May 1, 1960, an American spy plane U-2 with the pilot Gary Powers was shot down near Sverdlovsk . It was only much later that it became known that one of the launched anti-aircraft missiles accidentally hit a Soviet MiG-19 interceptor , which crashed near Degtjarsk. In 2005, a monument was erected near the city for Sergei Safronov, who died in the process, and a street was named after him.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	19,279
1959	27,430
1970	21,976
1979	20.101
1989	18,394
2002	15,869
2010	15,522

Note: census data

economy

In addition to copper mining, which defines the cityscape, there are equipment manufacturing companies (for the chemical industry and non-ferrous metallurgy, medical technology).

sons and daughters of the town

• Ekaterina Krylatkowa (* 1983), biathlete
• Olga Minejewa (* 1952), track and field athlete

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)
2. ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.
3. ↑ Article ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Trud , September 20, 2006 (Russian)  
4. ↑ Announcement ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by ITAR-TASS Ural , December 14, 2007 (Russian) 

Web links

Commons : Degtjarsk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Degtjarsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)