Komsomolsk-on-Amur

city Komsomolsk-on-Amur Комсомольск-на-Амуре flag coat of arms Federal district far East region Khabarovsk Urban district Komsomolsk-on-Amur mayor Vladimir Michalyov Founded 1932 City since 1933 surface 325  km² population 263,906 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 812 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 30  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 4217 Post Code 6810xx License Plate 27 OKATO 08 409 Website http://www.kmscity.ru Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 33 ′  N , 137 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  N , 137 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Khabarovsk region

List of cities in Russia

Komsomolsk am Amur ( Russian Комсомо́льск-на-Аму́ре  / Komsomolsk-na-Amure ) is a city in the Khabarovsk region in the Russian Far East Federal District in Russia with 263,906 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). It is the cultural center of the area with universities, theaters and museums.

Geography and climate

Komsomolsk is located on the left bank of the Amur and extends there for over 30 kilometers. The distance to the regional capital Khabarovsk is 348 km and to the Pacific coast around 300 km. The closest city is Amursk , which is just 40 km south of Komsomolsk.

The Komsomolsk area has a continental climate , which is characterized by frequent cyclones in summer due to its relative proximity to the Pacific. The total amount of precipitation amounts to 570 mm per year, the coldest month is January with an average temperature of -21 ° C, the warmest is July with 19 ° C.

The Amur carries a water volume of 2,930 m³ / s (January 1985) and 17,700 m³ / s (May 1985) and its river bed reaches a width of up to 2.5 kilometers in the urban area.

history

The area of ​​today's city originally belonged to China and came under Russian rule in 1858. In 1860 the village of Permskoye was established there , founded by settlers from the Perm province .

In 1931 the government of the Russian SFSR decided to build a shipyard on the Amur bank in what is now Komsomolsk. A few months later, in May 1932, the first group of volunteers from different areas of the Soviet Union - most of these volunteers were young people and belonged to the communist youth organization " Komsomol " - started construction on the future city. For this reason, the city was later called Komsomolsk (with the addition "on the Amur" to avoid confusion with places of the same name such as Komsomolsk (Iwanowo) ), and 1932 has been the year the city was founded.

The laying of the foundation stone of the shipyard took place in the summer of 1933 and was completed by 1939 together with several other industrial companies. The expansion of industry in Komsomolsk continued in the second half of the 20th century.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	70,808
1959	177.278
1970	218.127
1979	263,950
1989	315,325
2002	281.035
2010	263.906

Note: census data

economy

In the center of Komsomolsk

Even today Komsomolsk is regarded as the industrial center of the region with iron metallurgy , mechanical engineering , oil processing , light and food industry and shipbuilding . Komsomolsk is also known for its aircraft industry, as there is a production facility for Sukhoi machines such as the SU-27 . The modern Su-57 multi-purpose fighter with stealth features is also manufactured here for the Russian Air Force.

The economy also relies on the shipbuilding industry . The Amurski SSZ ( Амурский судостроительный завод ), formerly Werft 199, was used in the Soviet times mainly for the construction of diesel-electric submarines and nuclear submarines from the 671RTM project , project 971 , etc. In addition, combat ships like the destroyers were built here of the Skoryy class , Kotlin class and corvettes of the Grischa class and Stereguschtschi class .

traffic

The city has an inland port on the Amur, an airport and, as the end point of the Baikal-Amur artery, is also an important railway junction . The inner-city public transport was supported by an independent tram network until it was shut down on October 26, 2018 .

Town twinning

• Jiamusi , People's Republic of China
• Kamo , Japan

sons and daughters of the town

• Ivan Tregubov (1930–1992), ice hockey player
• Valery Ryumin (* 1939), cosmonaut
• Wladimir Gawrin (* 1941), neutrino physicist
• Anatoli Schalagin (* 1943), physicist and university professor
• Igor Nikitin (* 1952), weightlifter
• Dmitri Streltschinin (* 1973), boxer
• Julija Tschepalowa (* 1976), cross-country skier, Olympic champion in 1998 , 2002 , 2006 and two-time world champion
• Alexander Baschenow (* 1981), racing cyclist
• Yuri Bereschko (* 1984), volleyball player, Olympic champion 2012
• Anastassija Kravchenko (* 1986), ski orienteer
• Iwan Schtyl (* 1986), canoeist
• Yuri Gasinski (* 1989), football player
• Sergei Plotnikow (* 1990), ice hockey player
• Daniil Zyplakow (* 1992), high jumper
• Yulia Tsvetkova (* 1993), artist, activist and political prisoner

Web links

Commons : Komsomolsk-on-Amur  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Komsomolsk at mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Unofficial website (Russian)

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. ↑ Clue (.. D i Christian Lücker): Russia: Komsomolsk-on-Amur - decommissioned tram . In: Tram Magazine , issue 1/2019. ISSN  0340-7071 , p. 15.
3. ↑ Стрельчинин, Дмитрий , infosport.ru (Russian)
4. ↑ khv-boxing.narod.ru (Russian)