Gubkin
city
Gubkin
Губкин
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List of cities in Russia |
Gubkin ( Russian Губкин ) is a district town with 88,560 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in southwestern Russia , in Belgorod Oblast . It is located about 500 km south of Moscow , 180 km north of the Ukrainian city of Kharkov and 100 km northeast of the regional capital Belgorod , on the Oskolez river . The closest town is Stary Oskol , which is 19 km east of Gubkin.
history
The city was founded in the 1930s in the area of the villages of Korobkowo and Saltykowo in connection with the beginning development of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly , a huge iron ore deposit in southwestern Russia. It received its name in honor of the geologist Iwan Gubkin (1871-1939) when it was granted the status of an urban-type settlement in 1939. In 1955, Gubkin received city rights.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1959 | 21,333 |
1970 | 54,074 |
1979 | 65,140 |
1989 | 73,848 |
2002 | 86,083 |
2010 | 88,560 |
Note : census data
economy
Gubkin is still a center of mining , which is mostly operated above ground. Raw material processing, the building material and food industries play an important role.
Education and culture
Gubkin owns a branch of the Moscow State Open University and a Polytechnic. There is a museum in the city about the history of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly .
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)
See also: Gubkin University of Petroleum and Gas (Moscow)
Web links
- Gubkin on mojgorod.ru (Russian)