Pervouralsk
city
Pervouralsk
Первоуральск
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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.
Population development
year | Residents |
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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
- ↑ 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 Council website (Russian)
- Pervouralsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)