Krasnoarmeisk (Saratov)

city Krasnoarmeisk Красноармейск coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Saratov Rajon Krasnoarmeisk Founded 1766 Earlier names Goly Karamysh; Balzer City since 1918 surface 11  km² population 24,364 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2215 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84550 Post Code 412800-412804 License Plate 64, 164 OKATO 63 418 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 1 '  N , 45 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '0 "  N , 45 ° 42' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Saratov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Krasnoarmeisk ( Russian Красноармейск , formerly Balzer ) is a city in Saratov Oblast ( Russia ) with 24,364 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 75 km south of the Oblast capital Saratov near the source of the river Goly Karamysh in the river system of the Don , about 20 kilometers from the right bank of the Volga .

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

The closest the city railway station is Bobrowka , 15 kilometers along the route Saratov Ilowlja (- Volgograd ). The Saratov – Volgograd road also passes not far west of the city.

history

Krasnoarmeisk was founded in 1764–1766 as a colony of German settlers under the name Balzer , after a family name. An alternative name for the colony was Goly Karamysh , after the river, in Russian -Turkic language literally for naked, black river , i.e. cloudy river in a bare (unforested) steppe landscape .

The official name since the middle of the 19th century was Goly Karamysch (Balzer) . By the beginning of the 20th century, the place developed into a center of cloth weaving, a brick factory and other small factories were established.

With the beginning of the First World War , the German addition to the city name was deleted, and the city charter was granted in 1918 only under the name Goly Karamysh . In 1927, now on the territory of the Volga German Republic , the city was given the German name Balzer back.

As part of the deportation of the German population to Siberia under Stalin , the name was renamed again in 1942; it received its current name, derived from the Russian Krasnaya Armija for Red Army .

Population development

year	Residents
1926	12,400
1939	15,769
1959	13,552
1970	17,520
1979	17,621
1989	24,055
2002	25,411
2010	24,364

Note: census data (rounded up to 1926)

Culture and sights

Krasnoarmeisk has had a local museum since 1987. Part of the exposition is devoted to the history of the Volga German population.

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  The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Balzer, built in 1851, destroyed in the 20th century.

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  Official building in Balzer (Russia) built at the end of the 19th century.

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  Textile factory in Balzer (Russia) built at the end of the 19th century.

economy

Krasnoarmeisk is the center of an agricultural area. In the city there are several companies in the textile industry, agricultural engineering and the food industry.

See also

• List of cities in Saratov Oblast

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

• Unofficial city portal (Russian)
• Krasnoarmeisk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)