Kolchugino

This article provides information about the city of Kolchugino. For the Kolchugino settlement in the Kemerovo Oblast, which was named until 1922, see Leninsk-Kuznetsky , for the settlement in the Crimea see Koltschuhyne .

city Kolchugino Kolchugino flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Vladimir Rajon Kolchugino mayor Konstantin Motschalow Founded 1871 City since 1931 surface 25  km² population 45,776 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1831 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 175  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49245 Post Code 60178x License Plate 33 OKATO 17 240 501 Website www.kolchadm.ru Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 18 '  N , 39 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 18 '0 "  N , 39 ° 22' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Vladimir Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kolchugino ( Russian Кольчугино ) is a city in the Vladimir Oblast ( Russia ) with 45,776 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

A street in Kolchugino (2008)

The city is located about 75 km northwest of the Oblast capital Vladimir on the Pekscha , a left tributary of the Klyazma in the river system of the Volga . The Pekscha is dammed into a small dam northeast of the city.

Kolchugino is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

The city lies on the railway line ( Moscow -) Belkowo - Ivanovo (route km 172 from Moscow) opened on this section in 1899 . The R75 road also runs through Kolchugino , which connects the M7 road west of Vladimir via Kolchugino and Alexandrov with the M8 road north of Sergiev Posad .

history

Water tower in Kolchugino

Kolchugino was established in 1871 as a workers' settlement in connection with the establishment of a factory for copper products and wire by the Moscow merchant Alexander Grigoryevich Kolchugin (1839–1899), after whom the factory and location were named.

In the 1920s the place had the status of an urban-type settlement , and on March 20, 1931 the town charter was granted.

Population development

year	Residents
1926	11,000
1939	29,626
1959	37,865
1970	41,637
1979	43,741
1989	45.601
2002	47,059
2010	45,776

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

economy

The main companies of the city are the work Koltschugzmetmet , which manufactures non-ferrous metal products, as well as the outsourced from this Aktiengesellschaft 1997 Koltschug-Mizar AG , which based on the century-old tradition of the work utensils and Tools & Instruments produced from precious metals and alloys, as well as the work of electrical cables . There are also companies in the textile and food industries and a furniture factory.

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)

Web links

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

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