Prokhorovka
Urban-type settlement
Prokhorovka
Прохоровка
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Prokhorovka ( Russian Прохоровка ) is a Russian urban-type settlement in Belgorod Oblast , 56 km north of the regional capital Belgorod and around 80 km south of Kursk . The population is 9,761 (as of October 14, 2010).
history
The Polish aristocrat Kirill Grigorjewitsch Ilinski founded the village of Ilinski on his march from Poland to Belgorod during the Russo-Polish War between 1654 and 1656 .
In the 1860s the village was first in honor of Tsar Alexander II. In Alexandrovka renamed. The new Kursk - Kharkov - Azov railway line was built nearby in the 1880s, and the station closest to Alexandrowka was named Prokhorovka in honor of the railway engineer VI Prokhorov . From 1928 Alexandrowka formed the center of the Alexandrowker Rajons. In the course of time, the place Alexandrowka and the settlement around the Prokhorovka train station grew together , but it was not until September 20, 1968 that they were combined under the name Prokhorovka as the center of Prokhorovk Rajons.
In the 20th century, the town's economy was characterized by poultry rearing, dairy, and brick and asphalt businesses. On July 12, 1943, the place became the scene of skirmishes as part of the military operation of the Second World War, which the Germans called Enterprise Citadel . In the course of these fights, which were later transfigured into the "greatest tank battle in history", the village was largely destroyed.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 1,474 |
1959 | 3,607 |
1970 | 6,418 |
1979 | 6,859 |
1989 | 8.093 |
2002 | 10,007 |
2010 | 9,761 |
Note : census data
Web links
- History of Prokhorovka (Russian)
- Article Прохоровка in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
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)