Kachkanar

Federal district	Ural
Oblast	Sverdlovsk
Urban district	Kachkanar
mayor	Anatoly Kalugin
Founded	1958
City since	1968
surface	317 km²
population	41,426 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	131 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	300 m
Time zone	UTC + 5
Telephone code	(+7) 34341
Post Code	624350-624357
License Plate	66, 96, 196
OKATO	65 448
Website	www.admkgo.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates	58 ° 42 ′ N , 59 ° 29 ′ E Coordinates: 58 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ N , 59 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Katschkanar ( Russian Качканар ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 41,426 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located a few kilometers east of the Ural watershed , about 200 km north of the oblast capital Yekaterinburg , on the Vyja River , a left tributary of the Tura . The climate is continental.

The city of Kachkanar is administratively directly subordinate to the oblast. Two villages with a total of 2,377 inhabitants are subordinate to the city, so that the total number of inhabitants in the administrative unit “City of Katschkanar” is 45,226 (2009 calculation).

Katschkanar is located on a 45 km long railway line branching off at the Asiatskaya station (15 km west of Kuschwa ) from the former Ural mine railway Perm - Kushwa ( Goroblagodatskaya station ) - Yekaterinburg (freight traffic only).

history

Katschkanar was created in 1958 as a mining settlement as part of the start of mining of the titanium - magnetite -, and later also vanadium ore deposits on the mountain of the same name northwest of the city, which have been known since the 18th century , which were first described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1771 . As early as 1959, the place received the status of an urban-type settlement . Production of the ore enrichment plant started in 1963, and in 1968 the town received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	3,992
1970	33,048
1979	41,323
1989	48,251
2002	44,664
2010	41,426

Note : census data

economy

The city of Katschkanar lives mainly from the vanadium and iron ores mined in open-cast mining and their enrichment ( KGOK Vanadium from the Evraz Group ). There are also companies for precast concrete parts , electrical engineering (OOO Remelektro) and the repair of mining equipment (OAO Metallist) .

sons and daughters of the town

Jekaterina Bikert (* 1980), athlete

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

Commons : Katschkanar - collection of images, videos and audio files

City administration website (Russian)
Katschkanar on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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)


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