Pikaljowo

city Pikaljowo Пикалёво flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Leningrad Rajon Boksitogorsk mayor Sergei Weber First mention 1620 City since 1954 surface 38  km² population 21,562 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 567 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81366 Post Code 187600 License Plate 47 OKATO 41 440 Website www.pikalevo.org Geographical location Coordinates 59 ° 31 '  N , 34 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 59 ° 31 '0 "  N , 34 ° 10' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Leningrad Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Pikaljowo ( Russian Пикалёво ) is a city in the northwestern Russian Leningrad Oblast . It has 21,562 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the flank of the Tikhvin ridge about 240 km east of the oblast capital Saint Petersburg on the upper reaches of the river Ryadan in the river system of the Neva .

Pikaljowo belongs to the Boksitogorsk Raion .

history

Soviet city coat of arms (1979)

A village on the site of today's town was first mentioned in 1620.

In 1906 the Pikaljowo station, named after the founder of the neighboring farm Pikaljow, was opened here on the newly built railway line between Saint Petersburg and Vologda .

In 1932, in connection with the construction of a cement factory, a workers' settlement of the same name was built nearby, which was given the status of an urban-type settlement in 1947 and town charter in 1954.

From 1927 to 1932 Pikaljowo was the administrative center of an independent Rajons , from 1996 to 2006 a district-free city directly subordinate to the Oblast.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	16,883
1970	21,832
1979	23,469
1989	24,510
2002	23,325
2010	21,562

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The city has a local museum.

Economy and Infrastructure

Individual works have been created on the basis of the earlier city-building company Glinosjom (Russian for clay ). In addition to ores from neighboring Boksitogorsk, RUSAL processes nepheline concentrates from the Kola Peninsula into clay and aluminum products. A cement plant owned by the Russian market leader EuroCement produced 2.7 million tonnes in 2005, while the Metachim plant produces soda and potash . There are also companies in the construction industry as well as the wood processing and food industries.

The city is located on the St. Petersburg – Vologda – Kirov railway line, which opened in 1906 (route km 237).

The highway A114 Saint Petersburg-Vologda bypasses Pikaljowo south.

Town twinning

•  Maardu ( Estonia )

See also

• List of cities in Leningrad Oblast

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 : Pikaljowo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Pikaljowo on mojgorod.ru (Russian)