Ekibastus
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| Territory : | Pavlodar | ||
| Founded : | 1898 | ||
| Coordinates : | 51 ° 43 ' N , 75 ° 20' E | ||
| Height : | 347 m | ||
| Area : | 188 km² | ||
| Residents : | 133,676 (Jan 1, 2020) | ||
| Population density : | 711 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Time zone : | EKST ( UTC + 6 ) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+7) 7187 | ||
| Postal code : | 141200-141209 | ||
| License plate : | 14 (old: S) | ||
| Äkim ( Mayor ) : | Yershan Imansaipov | ||
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Ekibastus ( Kazakh Екібастұз ; Russian Экибастуз ) is a city in the northeast of the Republic of Kazakhstan .
Naming
The following legend explains how the city got its name:
A shepherd made his night camp in the steppe and put two dark stones together to light the fireplace in between. Little did he know that it was two pieces of coal that were starting to glow. In the morning he then marked the place where he found these miracle stones with two head-shaped salt stones. At this point Ekibastus was created. Therefore Ekibastus means : eki = "two", bas = "head", tus = "salt".
Geographical location
The city is located southwest of the regional capital Pavlodar in the Pavlodar region .
population
On January 1, 2014, there were 130,903 residents in Ekibastus. 146,839 inhabitants live in the agglomeration.
Ethnic composition
The census of January 1, 2010 showed the following ethnic composition:
- 49.60% Kazakhs
- 36.01% Russians
- 4.79% Ukrainians
- 2.80% Tatars
- 2.14% Kazakh Germans
- 0.85% Belarusians
- 0.46% Bashkirs
- 0.43% Moldovans
- 0.25% Koreans
- 0.22% Chechens
- 0.22% Poland
- 1.61% others
Religions
Ekibastus is characterized by religious diversity. 17 different religious communities are represented in the city.
The dominant religious community is Sunni Islam , to which the majority of the Kazakhs belong. The Sunni Muslims have seven communities in the city. A mosque was opened in September 1998.
The Russian Orthodox Church has a cathedral in Ekibastus that was built in the 1990s. The solemn inauguration of the cathedral took place on September 21, 2000.
There are also Roman Catholic and Protestant communities.
history
The place was founded in 1898. In 1957 Ekibastus was granted city rights after the population had grown to over 25,000. During the Stalin era there was a large penal camp ( PestschanLag , DalLag ) in Ekibastus , the inmates of which had to do forced labor in the coal mines . Alexander Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned in the Ekibastus camp , where his story A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was written.
economy
The city was built next to one of the largest hard coal deposits in the world. Open-cast coal mining is the city's main industry. The Kazakh coal mining company Bogatyr Komir has its headquarters in Ekibastus . It operates two large open- cast mining areas near the city, Bogatyr (Богатырь) and Vostochny (Восточный).
Close to Ekibastus is the Ekibastus power station , one of the world's largest power stations, with the tallest chimney in the world (419.7 m). The electricity generated is carried over the three-phase line Ekibastus – Kökschetau - the high-voltage line with the highest transmission voltage in the world (1150 kV). This is where the lines of the unfinished and therefore not operational HVDC Ekibastus center began , a direct current transmission line project.
Infrastructure
It has a branch of the Pavlodar State University , a cultural center with a modern cinema, a bazaar, a mosque and an Orthodox church, as well as an airport for domestic flights ( IATA code EKB).
A popular recreational area for the residents of Ekibastus is the nearby Bajanauyl Nature Park - a small mountain range with bizarre rock formations and picturesque lakes.
Sports
The city is home to the football club FK Ekibastus , the successor to FK Ekibastusez . The city is represented in Real Aikido by the Center of Real Aikido Tensin Ekibastus.
traffic
railroad
The Ekibastuz station lies on the railway line only Sultan - Kulunda .
highway
The long east-west route A17 , an important road in Kazakhstan, runs near the city .
sons and daughters of the town
- Tatiana Azarova (* 1985), athlete
- Maxim Fedin (* 1996), football player
- Dmitri Shomko (* 1990), football player
See also
Web links
- Official website of the city (Kazakh and Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Численность населения Республики Казахстан по полу в разрезе областей и столицы, столицы, столицы, анколицы, столицы, городоав, областей и столицы, анкония, горойцы, коники, городоав,. ( Excel ; 96 KB) stat.gov.kz, accessed on July 19, 2020 (Russian).
- ↑ Национальный состав населения Республики Казахстан ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
