Kolpashevo

city Kolpashevo Колпашево coat of arms Federal district Siberia Oblast Tomsk Rajon Kolpashevo mayor Yuri Syablitsew Founded 1611 City since 1938 surface 266  km² population 24,124 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 91 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 65  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38254 Post Code 63646x License Plate 70 OKATO 69 232 501 Website kolpadm.tom.ru Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 19 '  N , 82 ° 55'  O coordinates: 58 ° 19 '0 "  N , 82 ° 55' 0"  O

Situation in Russia

Location in Tomsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kolpashevo ( Russian Колпашево ) is a town in the Tomsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 24 124 inhabitants (14 October 2010).

geography

The city is located in the southeast of the West Siberian lowlands , about 270 km northwest of the Oblast capital Tomsk on the right bank of the Ob .

The city of Kolpaschewo is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and is the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

Kolpaschewo has a small airport and a ship landing stage on the Ob. There is a road connection with Tomsk, but only via a ferry connection to the left Obufer. In 2009 or 2010 the construction of a nearly two-kilometer-long bridge was supposed to start, but was postponed.

history

Kolpaschewo emerged as a village in 1611, only a little later than Tomsk. The name refers to the founder, the "service man" Kolpaschnikow . In 1710 it was mentioned as Kolpaschnikowo . The village was on the road to Tomsk and on to Eastern Siberia that was usual before the Siberian tract was built . Therefore, many early expeditions came through the place or made a stop here, e.g. B. the first Kamchatka expedition under Vitus Bering .

1933 Kolpashevo urban-type settlement , and in 1938 it received city status.

From 1932 to 1944 the city was the administrative center of Narym County (Narymski okrug), which housed a number of gulag camps.

In May 1979, Kolpaschewo gained notoriety when a mass grave from the Stalin era , which was laid out in 1937 only 30 meters from the river , was washed free on the nearby steep bank of the Kolpaschewski Jar and many corpses mummified in the frozen ground drifted on the Ob for weeks. Presumably on the instructions of the then Tomsk Oblast Secretary of the CPSU Yegor Ligachev , the incident was supposed to be hushed up by not reburial of the corpses, but sunk in the river or dismembered with ship's propellers. However, legal proceedings opened in this context in 1990 were suspended in 1992.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	700
1926	1,400
1939	15,182
1959	22,595
1970	24,911
1979	28,581
1989	31,319
2002	28,441
2010	24,124

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

There is a local museum in Kolpaschewo.

economy

Kolpaschewo is the center of river fishing and has a shipyard for fishing ships. There are also metal processing and food industries, and agriculture and forestry in the area.

A command post of the Russian space forces is located near the city .

literature

• Kerstin Holm: Who wears the millstone of memory? : The war of the living against the dead in the Siberian Kolpaschewo: Where a mass grave with thousands of victims of the Stalin terror was found in 1979, there is now oppressive indulgence , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 4, 2016 online

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. ↑ http://www.kolpashewo.ru/kolpashevomost/ (Russian)
3. ↑ W. Sapezki: Kolpaschewski Jar. Novosibirsk 1992 (Russian)
4. ↑ Article from Belaruskaja gaseta (from October 30, 2006; Russian)

Web links

• Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
• Kolpaschewo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)