Yershov

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Jerschow (disambiguation) .

city Yershov Ершов coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Saratov Rajon Yershov Founded 1893 City since 1963 surface 21  km² population 21,448 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1021 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 100  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84564 Post Code 413500-413503 License Plate 64, 164 OKATO 63 217 501 Website er64.ru Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 21 '  N , 48 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '0 "  N , 48 ° 17' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Saratov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Jerschow ( Russian Ершов , wiss. Transliteration Eršov ) is a Russian city ​​with 21,448 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and the center of the raion of the same name in Saratov Oblast .

location

Yershov is located on the upper reaches of the Kleiner User River in the eastern Saratov Oblast, 180 km from the regional capital Saratov and about 100 km from the border with Kazakhstan . The nearest town is Balakovo , which is 80 km north of Yershov.

history

Yershov train station

Yershov was founded in 1893 as a railway settlement around the Yershovo station of the then Ryazan-Ural Railway , which opened a year later . Initially, the station was served by the Pokrovsk - Uralsk line , and from 1895 also by the branch line from Yershov to Nikolaevsk . From 1898 railway workshops and a locomotive depot were built near the Jerschower station; However, there were no other industrial companies in the village.

In 1914, the population of the station settlement, which belonged to the Samara Governorate until 1917, exceeded the limit of 1,000 for the first time. In 1928, Yershov became the administrative center of Yershov district in Saratov Oblast. However, the place only received city status in 1963.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	14,439
1959	19,977
1970	21,731
1979	22,277
1989	24,468
2002	23,848
2010	21,448

Note: census data

economy

With a connection to two railway lines and to the European route 38 , Jerschow is a regionally important traffic junction with a large railway depot , which is one of the most important companies in the city. Otherwise the industry in Jerschow is not very well developed with a few food factories.

Well-known structures

In Jerschow there is a 350 meter high transmission mast for VHF and TV that was erected in 1974.

sons and daughters of the town

• Valentina Prudskowa (* 1938 to 2020), foil fencer
• Viktor Mamonov (born 1968), actor

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)

Web links

• Yershov on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Description of the Yershov train station (Russian)