Kirovgrad

Federal district	Ural
Oblast	Sverdlovsk
Urban district	Kirovgrad
Founded	1910
City since	1932
surface	78 km²
population	21,035 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	270 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	290 m
Time zone	UTC + 5
Telephone code	(+7) 34357
Post Code	624140-624144
License Plate	66, 96, 196
OKATO	65 453
Geographical location
Coordinates	57 ° 26 ' N , 60 ° 4' E Coordinates: 57 ° 26 '0 " N , 60 ° 4' 0" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Kirovgrad ( Russian Кировград ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 21,035 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). Kirovgrad is not to be confused with the city of Kropywnyzkyj , formerly Kirowohrad (Russian Kirowograd) in Ukraine.

geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Middle Urals , about 100 km northwest of the Oblast capital Yekaterinburg in the headwaters of the Neiwa , the left headwaters of the Niza in the Ob river system .

Kirovgrad is the center of an urban district of the same name .

Kirovgrad is connected to the Shurala station of the Perm - Kushwa railway line ( Goroblagodatskaya station ) - Yekaterinburg by a 9 km long branch line. The station of the city is called Jeschowaja (Ежёвая).

history

The village of Kalatai , later Kalata , was built in the place of the present city in the 17th century . At the beginning of the 18th century, the mining of copper ores discovered nearby began. The Kalatinski Sawod copper smelter was built in 1910–12 , around which a workers' settlement of the same name was built. This received city rights in 1932 under the name Kalata . In 1935 it was renamed Kirovgrad , after the Soviet statesman Sergei Kirov, who was murdered in 1934 .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	27,735
1959	22,713
1970	23,031
1979	24,031
1989	25,598
2002	23,197
2010	21,035

Note: census data

Culture and sights

There is a history and local museum in Kirovgrad .

economy

The copper combine Kirovgrad with mine, enrichment factory, copper smelter and chemical plant is one of the largest non-ferrous metallurgy companies in the Urals. There is also a plant for tungsten - titanium - and cobalt - alloys .

sons and daughters of the town

Galina Kurljandskaja (* 1961), physicist and university professor

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 : Kirovgrad - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Kirovgrad 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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