Fokino (Primorye)
city
Fokino
Фокино
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Fokino ( Russian Фокино ) is a closed city in the Primorye region ( Russia ) with 23,696 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located on Abrek Bay , east of the Ussuri Bay of the Sea of Japan , as the crow flies about 45 km southeast of the regional capital, Vladivostok .
The city of Fokino is administratively directly subordinate to the region and has the status of a closed administrative-territorial entity (" closed city "). The city of Fokino also administers the “closed” urban-type settlements Dunai ( Дунай , 7805 inhabitants, 12 km southwest) and Putjatin ( Путятин , 1015 inhabitants, 14 km south, on the island of the same name), so that the total population of the administrative unit “ City of Fokino “amounts to 33,825 (2009).
After Fokino since a 1941 opened leads railway line (only freight) which, when Smolyaninovo of the Trans-Siberian -Zweigstrecke to Nakhodka branches. Another branch of the route leads to the settlement of Dunai.
history
The village of Promyslowka was established in 1891 on the site of today's Fokino . The settlement of Dunai, closer to the open sea, was founded in 1907 by Moldovan resettlers, named after the Danube (in Russian Dunai) and was initially more important as a fishing port.
In 1958, however, Promyslowka became an urban-type settlement , as was the newly founded Tichookeanski (from Russian Tichi okean, literally for Pacific Ocean ) in the immediate vicinity but closer to the coast as a naval base in 1963 . The places grew together and were finally given town charter as a "closed town" under the current name on October 4, 1980, for which, however, the name Schkotowo-17 was used for reasons of secrecy (after the settlement named after Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Schkot , the former administrative center of Schkotowo surrounding Rajons of the same name ; today this is Bolshoi Kamen ). The subordinate settlements were also given code names: Dunai became Schkotowo-22 and Putyatin Schkotowo-26 . Fokino has officially been using this name since 1994.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1970 | 13,550 |
1979 | 15.210 |
2002 | 26,457 |
2010 | 23,696 |
Note: census data
economy
Fokino is the base of the Russian Pacific Fleet .
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
- Unofficial Portal of Fokino (Russian)
- Fokino on mojgorod.ru (Russian)