Krasny Sulin

city Krasny Sulin Красный Сулин flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Rostov Rajon Krasny Sulin Founded 1797 City since 1926 surface 95  km² population 40,866 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 430 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86367 Post Code 346350-346361 License Plate 61, 161 OKATO 60 226 501 Geographical location Coordinates 47 ° 53 '  N , 40 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '0 "  N , 40 ° 4' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Rostov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Krasny Sulin ( Russian Красный Сулин ) is a city in Rostov Oblast ( Russia ) with 40,866 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the eastern foothills of the Donets Ridge about 100 km northeast of the Oblast capital Rostov-on-Don on the Kundryuchya , a right tributary of the Seversky Donets .

Krasny Sulin is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

The city lies on the railway line Moscow - Voronezh - Rostov-on-Don (station Sulin ; route kilometers 1104). A few kilometers east of the city, the M4 Moscow – Rostov-on-Don – Novorossiysk highway runs past the city.

history

In 1797 the Cossack colonel Andrei Sulin founded a village (Khutor) on the site of today's city .

In connection with the establishment of an iron foundry based on local iron ore deposits , a workers' settlement was later created, which grew together with the village in the 1870s and was named Sulin after the founder of the village .

In the 1920s, the place name was preceded by the ideologically motivated attribute Krasny (Russian for red ) and under this name in 1926 the city was granted.

During the Second World War , Krasny Sulin was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on July 21, 1942 and recaptured on February 14, 1943 by troops of the Southwest Front of the Red Army as they advanced on Voroshilovgrad .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	33,938
1959	39,824
1970	41,684
1979	42,566
1989	43,133
2002	44,187
2010	40,866

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The Church of the Protection and Intercession of the Virgin Mary ( Покровская церковь / Pokrowskaja zerkow) from 1912 has been preserved in Krasny Sulin .

economy

In addition to the foundry, there are other companies in the metallurgy, building materials and light and food industries. Coal mining is carried out in the Rajon .

sons and daughters of the town

• Igor Pavlov (1900–1985), metallurgist, metallurgist and university professor
• Valeri Korsun (* 1953), cosmonaut

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

• Krasny Sulin on mojgorod.ru (Russian)