Kargapolje

Urban-type settlement Kargapolje Каргаполье Federal district Ural Oblast Kurgan Rajon Kargapolski head Yuri Lipnyagov Founded 1670 Urban-type settlement since 1969 population 8433 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 75  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35256 Post Code 641920 License Plate 45 OKATO 37 210 551 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 57 '  N , 64 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 57 '20 "  N , 64 ° 26' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Kurgan Oblast

Kargapolje ( Russian Каргаполье ) is an urban-type settlement in Kurgan Oblast ( Russia ) with 8,433 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the southwestern part of the West Siberian lowlands, about 80 kilometers as the crow flies, northwest of the Kurgan Oblast Administrative Center , on the left bank of the Miass River, about 20 km above its confluence with the Isset .

Kargapolje is the administrative center of the Kargapolski Rajons and the seat of the municipality of the same name (gorodskoje posselenije), to which, in addition to the settlement, the villages Khramowa (about 4 km southwest) and Schabartschina (3 km northeast) as well as those about 12 to 15 km north to northwest along the villages of Tashkowa, Nechunayeva and Mishagina on the right bank of the Isset belong.

history

The place was founded in 1670 by resettlers from the city of Kargopol in the north of European Russia, in today 's Arkhangelsk Oblast , and named after them; initially the name forms Kargapolowa and Kargapolskoje were in use. At the beginning of the 19th century, the village became the seat of a Volost of Ujezds Schadrinsk in what was then Perm Governorate .

On January 18, 1824, a Rajon with administrative headquarters in Kargapolje, as the place was now called, was founded. On January 9, 1969, the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1907	1,473
1939	3,083
1959	2,964
1970	7,042
1979	8,850
1989	10,037
2002	8,745
2010	8,433

Note: from 1939 census data

Culture and sights

The 1895 built and 1939 closed Mary protection Intercession -Church ( церковь Покрова Пресвятой Богородицы , Zerkow Pokrova Preswjatoi Bogoroditsy ) has been restored from the 1990s and reopened of 2004. Kargapolje is home to the Rajon's Historical and Local Museum .

Economy and Infrastructure

There is a machine factory in Kargapolje which, among other things, produces equipment for oil and gas extraction, as well as food and light industry companies.

The R354 trunk road , which connects Yekaterinburg to Kurgan via Kamensk-Uralsky and Shadrinsk , runs through the settlement . 17 km southwest of the settlement is the Kargapolje station on the Yekaterinburg - Kurgan railway line, which opened in 1934 and electrified in 1971 (line km 263), a cross-connection between the northern main line of the Trans-Siberian Railway via Tyumen and the original and present southern route via Chelyabinsk . The village of the same name, Kargapolje , developed at the station belongs to the rural municipality (selskoje posselenije) Maiski selsowet des Kargapolski rajon.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Sinaida Krutichowskaja (1916–1986), geophysicist and university professor

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)
2. ↑ Mariä-Schutz-und-Interbitte-Kirche Kargapolje  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at sobory.ru (Russian)  

Web links

• Official website of the Raion Administration (Russian)