Kawalerovo

Urban-type settlement Kawalerovo Кавалерово Federal district far East region Primorye Rajon Kawalerovo head Marina Kuzmina Founded 1910 Earlier names Kawalerowka (until 1950) Urban-type settlement since 1950 population 15,381 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 42375 Post Code 692410-692412 License Plate 25, 125 OKATO 05 210 551 Geographical location Coordinates 44 ° 16 '  N , 135 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 16 '0 "  N , 135 ° 3' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Primorye region

List of large settlements in Russia

Kawalerowo ( Russian Кавале́рово ) is an urban-type settlement in the Primorye region ( Russia ) with 15,381 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the Far East of Russia in the midst of this central mountain character carrying Sikhote-Alin , about 280 km (distance) northeast of the regional capital Vladivostok . Immediately to the west of the town is the main ridge of the mountains, which is a good 1000 meters high, the watershed between Amur / Ussuri and the Sea of ​​Japan . In the village, the creek of the same name, Kawalerowka, flows to the Serkalnaja, which flows into the Sea of ​​Japan 50 kilometers east.

Kawalerowo is the administrative center of Kawalerowo Rajon .

history

The place was founded in 1910 by Fyodor Popolitow (1878-1938), a farmer from Ujesd Zemlyansk of the then Voronezh governorate , who had fought as a soldier in the Russo-Japanese War 1904/05 and was awarded the George Medal. After the war he stayed as a resettler in the Far East of Russia. In honor of the bearer (Russian kawaler for cavalier ) of the George Medal , the village was named, initially in the form of Kawalerowka ; Popolitov himself was later shot dead for alleged espionage during the Great Terror (and rehabilitated in 1992).

A significant economic boom took place and area with the discovery of Zinnerzlagerstätten (in the form of cassiterite - soaps ) at the headwaters of the rivers Serkalnaja and Pawlowka 1939. As a result largely sprung up in the 1950s five tin mines and two Erzanreicherungsfabriken with the associated surrounding settlements Rudny (1945), Chrustalny (1954), Vysokogorsk (1956) and Gornoretschensky (1976). Kawalerowo itself received urban-type settlement status in 1950. The area took a leading position in tin mining in the Soviet Union .

During the economic crisis of the 1990s, all tin mining came to a standstill; the last mine closed in 2001.

Population development

year	Residents
1912	97
1915	240
1959	11,875
1970	16,415
1979	20,083
1989	19,336
2002	17,358
2010	15,381

Note: census data from 1959

Culture and sights

The main attraction is the surrounding mountainous landscape of the Sichote-Alin.

Economy and Infrastructure

After tin mining was stopped, the timber industry became the main branch of the economy. There are also companies in the food and construction industries.

Kawalerowo is located on the regional road A181 from Ussuriysk via Arsenjew to Dalnegorsk and Rudnaya Pristan . Further to the east, a road branches off from this to the southern settlement of Olga on the bay of the same name.

Immediately to the west of the town is a small regional airport ( ICAO code UHWK ), which is regularly served by Vladivostok Avia with Jakowlew Jak-40 on the Vladivostok-Knewitschi - Plastun route .

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. ↑ List of victims at Memorial.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ Report ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Vladivostok magazine Jeschednewnyje Novosti , April 11, 2006 (Russian) 

Web links

• Private website about Kawalerovo (Russian)