Leipzig (Russia)

Village Leipzig Лейпциг Federal district Ural Oblast Chelyabinsk Rajon Warning skis Founded 1843 population 717 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 245  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35142 Post Code 457214 License Plate 74, 174 OKATO 75 214 835 001 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 34 '  N , 61 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '0 "  N , 61 ° 2' 45"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Chelyabinsk Oblast

Leipzig ( Russian Ле́йпциг ) is a village (selo) in the Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia with 717 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

The place belongs to Warnenski Rajon . It is located about 180 km as the crow flies south of the Chelyabinsk Oblast Administrative Center and a good 20 km north of the Varna district center . It is located on the eastern edge of the southern Urals a good 5 km from the state border with Kazakhstan , on the left bank of the Verkhny Togusak (Upper Togusak), one of the headwaters of the right Ui tributary, Togusak .

Leipzig is the seat of the rural community Leipzigskoje selskoje posselenije, which also includes the settlement at the Salamat train station 5 km to the east on the railway line (Chelyabinsk -) Troitsk  - Orsk (route kilometer 66 from Solotaya Sopka south of Troitsk).

The place was established in 1843 as a guard post of the Orenburg Cossack army near the then border of the Russian Empire to the not yet colonized steppe areas of the later Russian Turkestan , initially as a post (post) or section (Uchastok) No. 29 of the Novolineiny rajon ("New Line- Rajon ”, for the area along the border line between the fortresses Troitsk and Orsk). Like a number of other places in the region, including Bredy , Ferschampenuas , Parisch or the Varna Rajonzentrum, it was later named after the scene of a victory by the Russian army in the wars of the 18th and 19th centuries; in this case after the Battle of Nations of 1813 near Leipzig , in which the 3rd Orenburg Cossack Regiment had participated.

The Integration Association Leipzig - Bridge of Cultures e. V. (70 members) with the support of sponsors, based on an idea by the Russian filmmaker Nasur Jurushbajew, erected a monument of friendship between peoples made of aluminum in the settlement as a sign of understanding on a scale of 1:25, which is reminiscent of the Leipzig Völkerschlachtdenkmal .

Individual evidence

• New kindergarten roof for the people of Leipzig in the Urals
• Friendship of peoples gets a memorial
• Creative project for Leipzig in the Urals
• Welcome to Leipzig, the village in the Urals!

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. ↑ Soviet General Staff Map 1,100,000. Sheet N-41-087 (1989 edition)
3. ↑ Obschtscherossijski classificator territorij munizipalnych obrasowanij (OKTMO), as of January 1, 2014
4. ↑ Leipziger Volkszeitung from 3./4. August 2019