Krasnouralsk
city
Krasnouralsk
Красноуральск
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List of cities in Russia |
Krasnouralsk ( Russian Красноуральск ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 24,980 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located on the eastern edge of the Urals , about 180 km north of the oblast capital Yekaterinburg , on the Kuschaika brook, near its confluence with the Salda . The climate is continental.
The city of Krasnouralsk is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast.
Krasnouralsk is connected to Verkhnyaya Tura ( Verkhnyaya station ) on the Kushwa ( Goroblagodatskaya station ) - Serov railway line via a branch line (freight traffic only) . The name of the city's station is Med (Russian Медь for copper ).
history
The area of today's city was first settled in 1832 with the discovery of gold - soap deposits , which, however, did not prove to be productive. Later in the 19th century, however, the Bogomolow copper gravel deposit was discovered here (after the gold prospector Bogomolow, on whose territory it is located). In 1925 their development and the construction of a copper smelter began with the associated settlement Bogomolstroi ( Богомолстрой ). In 1929 it was renamed Uralmedstroi ( Уралмедьстрой ). In 1932 the place was given city rights under its current name (Russian красный / krasny for red ; here both with reference to the color of the copper and with ideological significance, see Red October for the October Revolution ).
In the city there was a POW camp 376 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 35,824 |
1959 | 39,245 |
1970 | 39,743 |
1979 | 38,235 |
1989 | 35,284 |
2002 | 28,961 |
2010 | 24,980 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
Krasnouralsk has a local museum.
economy
In addition to the copper smelter, which determines the city's economy, there are mechanical engineering, textile, furniture and food industries.
sons and daughters of the town
- Vitaly Sevastyanov (1935–2010), cosmonaut and politician
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)
- ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.
Web links
- City portal of Krasnouralsk (Russian)
- Krasnouralsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)