Pervouralsk

city Pervouralsk Первоуральск flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Sverdlovsk Urban district Pervouralsk mayor Maxim Fyodorov Founded 1732 City since 1933 surface 66  km² population 124,528 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1887 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 283  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 3439 Post Code 623100-623159 License Plate 66, 96, 196 OKATO 65 480 Website www.prvadm.ru Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 55 '  N , 59 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 55 '0 "  N , 59 ° 57' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Pervouralsk ( Russian Первоуральск , literally "the first in the Urals ") is a 124,528 inhabitants (14 October 2010) scoring big city in the Sverdlovsk Oblast in Russia . It is located about 40 km west of Yekaterinburg and is separated from it by the main ridge of the Urals, which runs two kilometers east of Pervouralsk and is marked by a monument on the 1778th kilometer of the Trans-Siberian Railway ; so the city is still in the European part of Russia. Pervouralsk is 283 m above sea level, and the Chusovaya , a tributary of the Kama, flows through the city .

history

After the entrepreneur Vasily Demidow built an iron factory in 1730, a settlement called Vasilyevsko -Shaytansky (Васильевско-Шайтанский) was built around 1732 . It was not granted city rights until 1933 and was renamed Pervouralsk on this occasion. The city had around 44,000 inhabitants in 1939, and 90,000 in 1959. In the headlines Perwouralsk came on 13 January 1990, when in the vicinity of the city, a Tupolev Tu-134 of Aeroflot crashed; 27 of the 71 people on board were killed.

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  Entrance to Pervouralsk

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  Tube factory

Population development

year	Residents
1926	9,000
1939	44,239
1959	90,424
1970	116,646
1979	129,189
1989	142.193
2002	132,277
2010	124,528

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

economy

Pervouralsk has recently seen a very positive economic development with growth rates in industrial production of 25–30% annually and sales increases in trade of 20% annually. Unemployment is only around 1%. The average income is the equivalent of about 300  $ but slightly below the average for the oblast. The city's largest employer is a pipe construction company founded in 1934.

sons and daughters of the town

• Vitali Malkin (* 1952), entrepreneur and politician
• Igor Malkow (* 1965), speed skater
• Ekaterina Smolentsewa (* 1981), ice hockey player
• Svetlana Terentjewa (* 1983), ice hockey player
• Ekaterina Solovyova (* 1991), ice hockey player

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

Commons : Pervouralsk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Council website (Russian)
• Pervouralsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)