Polevskoi

city polevskoy Полевской flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Sverdlovsk Urban district Polevskoi mayor Viktor Reiter Founded 1708 City since 1942 surface 57  km² population 64,220 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1127 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 360  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 34350 Post Code 623380-623391 License Plate 66, 96, 196 OKATO 65 482 Website polevskoy-adm.ru Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 27 '  N , 60 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 27 '0 "  N , 60 ° 11' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Polewskoi ( Russian Полевской ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 64,220 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The town lies on the eastern flank of the Middle Urals , about 50 km southwest of Oblasthauptstadt Yekaterinburg at the Polewaja , a tributary of the Kama opens Chusovaya .

Polewskoi is directly subordinate to the Oblast administratively.

Ten kilometers from the city center is the city's train station on the Yekaterinburg – Chelyabinsk railway line .

history

Polewskoi was founded in 1708 after the discovery of a copper ore deposit , the systematic mining of which began in 1718. The Polewski Sawod copper works were built in 1724–27, and the Seversky Sawod ironworks eight kilometers away in 1738 .

In 1942, the settlements at the two plants, which had had the status of urban-type settlements since 1923 , were combined. At the same time, the place received city rights under the name of the larger settlement Polewskoi.

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  Culture house

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  Seversky Sawod Ironworks 1886

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  Reservoir ("pond") of the old ironworks

Population development

year	Residents	comment
1926	11,000
1939	24,931	of which Polewskoi 17,186, Seversky 7,745
1959	47.102
1970	57,557
1979	64,078
1989	70,632
2002	66,761
2010	64,220

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

There is a Pavel Baschow Museum in Polewskoi . The writer and folklorist (1879–1950) spent his childhood here; many of his fairy tales and stories, which take place in the Urals and are often based on folk tales, are set in the area around the city, where u. a. some of the most famous, but now depleted malachite sites were, for example Gumeschki . The city also has a local museum.

economy

The most important company in the city is the Severski trubny zavod steel pipe works , which was built on the basis of the old ironworks and produces other steel products in addition to pipes. There are also companies in the chemical industry ( e.g. for synthetic cryolite ), mechanical engineering and the construction industry.

Town twinning

• Klatovy , Czech Republic, since 2010

sons and daughters of the town

• Alexander Kowalenko (1943–2002), Soviet-Armenian football player
• Alina Ibragimova (* 1985), violinist

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. ↑ http://www.klatovy.cz/mukt/fr.asp?tab=mukt&id=4354&burl=&pt=PM

Web links

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

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