Halbstadt (Russia)

Village Halbstadt Гальбштадт Federal district Siberia region Altai Rajon German national circle Founded 1908 population 1756 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 7 License Plate 22nd OKATO 01 260 820 001 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 13 '  N , 78 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 13 '0 "  N , 78 ° 59' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Altai region

Halbstadt ( Russian Гальбштадт / transcribed Galbschtadt ) is the administrative center of the German National Circle in the Russian Altai region in southern Western Siberia . The place has 1756 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

Halbstadt was founded in 1908 by German settlers from the southern governorates of Russia. It is the only place that got its German name back in 1991 after it was renamed Nekrassowo in 1938 as part of Stalin's policy of repression against the Soviet Germans .

Sons of the place

• Viktor Andrejewitsch Kanke (* 1944), philosopher

literature

• V. Diesendorf: Nemzy Rossii. Nasseljonnyje punkty i mesta posselenija: enziklopeditscheski slowar . ERN, Moscow 2006. ISBN 978-5-93227-002-8 . (Russian)

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)