Pallasovka

city Pallasovka Палласовка flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Volgograd Rajon Pallasovka Founded 1907 City since 1967 surface 35  km² population 16,081 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 459 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 30  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84492 Post Code 404260-404264 License Plate 34, 134 OKATO 18 245 501 Website www.pallasowka.ru Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 3 '  N , 46 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 3 '0 "  N , 46 ° 53' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Volgograd Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Pallasovka ( Russian Палласовка ) is a city with 16,081 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Volgograd Oblast in Russia .

geography

The city is located on the Volga tributary Torgun in the far northeast of the oblast, 301 km from the regional capital Volgograd and about 30 km from the Russian- Kazakh border. The four closest cities - Krasny Kut , Novousensk , Nikolayevsk and Kamyshin - are all around 100 kilometers away from Pallasovka. The city lies in the middle of the steppe landscape typical of the Lower Volga , which further south merges into a desert landscape in the direction of the Caspian Sea .

history

In 1860 the Volga-German colony Neu Galka (Nowaja Galka) arose a little east of today's city as a "daughter colony" of the Galka (also Ust-Kulalinka ) colony, which was founded in 1764 - as one of the first five ever - located on the right bank of the Volga about 40 km northeast of the city Kamyshin .

In 1907, the railway line from Krasny Kut to Astrakhan was led past the site and the Torgun station , named after the river, was built there. A little later, the name of the station and the associated settlement were changed in honor of the geographer Peter Simon Pallas , who also conducted research in this area in the late 18th century and, among other things, analyzed the soil conditions and the salt deposits in the area east of the Lower Volga ( Baskuntschak Lake and other). Today there is a monument to Pallas in the city center.

After the opening of the station, the railway settlement gradually grew into a trading place, whereby the station was used not only for passenger traffic but also for agricultural goods transport, and it soon merged with the Neu Galka colony. In 1921, already during Soviet times , the place became the administrative center of a district ( Rajons ) in the course of a regional reform . Until 1941 it belonged to the Volga German Republic and was located directly on its southeastern border, which was formed here by the Torgun River. In 1926 of the 4668 inhabitants in the area of ​​the village soviet Neu Galka, to which the station settlement Pallasowka belonged, 3673 (79%) were Germans.

After the dissolution of the Volga German Republic and the deportation of the German residents, the place was only called Pallasowka after 1941. During the Second World War it was located in the immediate vicinity of the front around Stalingrad and served as an important transshipment point for military transport by rail.

In the post-war period, agriculture in particular was developed in the Rajon . On June 30, 1967 Pallassowka received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1,550
1926	4,668
1939	6,715
1959	10,346
1970	13,505
1979	15,503
1989	17,712
2002	17.163
2010	16,081

Note: census data

economy

As the center of an agricultural area, Pallasovka mainly has the food industry. There is also an asphalt plant and a feed factory.

sons and daughters of the town

• Andreas Hermann (* 1983), actor

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

• City unofficial website (Russian)
• Palasovka on mojgorod.ru (Russian)