Mikhailovka

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Michailowka (disambiguation) .

city Michailowka Михайловка flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Volgograd Urban district Mikhailovka Founded 1762 City since 1948 surface 61  km² population 59,132 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 969 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 80  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84463 Post Code 403310-403349 License Plate 34, 134 OKATO 18 420 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 4 '  N , 43 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 4 '0 "  N , 43 ° 14' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Volgograd Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Michailowka ( Russian Миха́йловка , German name: Zug) is a city and district administrative center with 59,132 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Volgograd Oblast ( Russia ).

geography

The city is located about 200 km northwest of the regional capital Volgograd on the right bank of the Don tributary Medveditsa .

history

The place originated in 1762 as a small country estate. It had the German name Zug . The resulting district is now Yastrebovka. Agriculture was the main activity here for centuries. This is the name given to the nearby railway station, which opened in 1870 and is still called that today. A nearby village was called Michailowka. At the end of the 19th century, the village and the station settlement gradually grew together as Michailowka . In 1928 the place became the administrative center of a Rajons.

During the Second World War, there was a forced labor camp of the same name in Michailowka for a time (as a form of concentration camp , for the extermination of those deported there through labor ).

From 1934 until the city charter was granted in 1948, the place had the status of an urban-type settlement .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	17,741
1959	34,984
1970	49,797
1979	58.193
1989	58,323
2002	60,034
2010	59,132

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Besides agriculture, there is less industry in the village: three food factories, a cement factory and an engine factory.

There is a Volgograd University campus in Mikhailovka .

The place is connected to the M6 trunk road and also has a train station with connections to Volgograd, Lipetsk and other cities.

sons and daughters of the town

• Alexander Dornhof (1891–1937), Volga German Catholic martyr and victim of Stalinism
• Alexander Topchiev (1907–1962), Soviet petrochemist

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. ^ Train at the Volga German Institute at Fairfield University
3. ↑ https://www.memorialmuseums.org/denkmaeler/view/1580/Erinnerung-an-die-ermordeten-Juden-des-Lagers-Michailowka

Web links

• Michailowka in the online lexicon mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Unofficial city portal (Russian)