Degtyarsk
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Degtyarsk
Degtarsk
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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 |
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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
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ 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
- City administration website (Russian)
- Degtjarsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)