Prokopyevsk

city Prokopyevsk Прокопьевск flag coat of arms Federal district Siberia Oblast Kemerovo Urban district Prokopyevsk Founded 1731 City since 1931 surface 217  km² population 210,130 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 968 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 280  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38466 Post Code 653000-653052 License Plate 42, 142 OKATO 32 437 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 53 '  N , 86 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '0 "  N , 86 ° 43' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Kemerovo Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Prokopjewsk ( Russian Проко́пьевск ) is a Russian industrial city in the south of the Kuznetsk coal basin in the Kemerovo Oblast , western Siberia, with 210,130 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). It is named after the martyr Prokopios of Caesarea († 303), who is particularly venerated in the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches . Prokopjewsk is located about 350 km southeast of Novosibirsk and about 400 km south of Tomsk .

history

In 1918 the two villages Prokopjewskoje and Monastyrskoje (founded in 1731) were merged to form the new municipality Prokopjewski . With the acquisition of city rights in 1931, the name was changed to Prokopjewsk .

The most important industries are coal mining , machine, food and chemical industries. The city is on a branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway .

The Faculty of the Siberian State Metallurgical Mining Academy (formerly: Faculty of the Siberian Sergo Ordzhonikidze Institute) has its headquarters in Prokopyevsk.

Place at the Prokopyevsk Playhouse

Coal mining in Prokopyevsk was expanded particularly during the second five-year plan (1928–1932). German mining specialists and many foreign miners, especially from the Ruhr area and Czechoslovakia , were recruited for this. Germans who were victims of the first mass deportation in 1930 also worked there. There was also a German school in Prokopjewsk, where German emigrants also taught (such as Betty Schmittka from Essen and the writer and Prokopjewsk partner of Willy Harzheim , Emma Tromm, who grew up in Cologne ). Almost none of the emigrants survived the Stalinist purges . Many of them were accused of sabotage of the serious deficiencies in the inadequately developed and equipped mines. In the show trial of the "criminal case of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center" in January 1937 a. a. the charge was negotiated that a terrorist attack against Molotov had been attempted in Prokopyevsk in 1934 . One of the German purge victims was the working-class writer and “cultural worker” Willy Harzheim, who was shot in December 1937.

With the deportation of the Volga Germans in 1941, “supplies” were brought to Prokopyevsk. Because the city's infrastructure was not prepared for this influx, these forced settlers and forced laborers of the Trudowaja Armija ( Trudarmija for short , Labor Army ) lived there under catastrophic conditions. Many of their families came to Germany as repatriates in the 1970s, 1980s and until recently . After 1945, German prisoners of war and civil internees also worked in the mining industry and on construction sites in Prokopyevsk. They were housed in Camp 7525/7 Prokopjewsk and Camp 7525/10 Prokopjewsk.

The ecclesiastical parish life among the Volga Germans, which was completely suffocated during the Stalin era, began to revive at the end of the 1950s. Prokopyevsk was the only parish of the Latin rite that had its own priest again from 1959, a Redemptorist from Ukraine. There has also been a Greek Catholic parish in Prokopyevsk since around this time.

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, industry in Prokopyevsk has also become ailing; in June 2003 there was a mining accident in Prokopyevsk, which indicated inadequate safety precautions. The city administration lacks the means to maintain the municipal infrastructure. The housing situation is extremely cramped.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	107.287
1959	281,958
1970	274,485
1979	266.167
1989	273,838
2002	224,597
2010	210.130

Note: census data

Sports

The city ​​is represented in ice hockey by the HK Shakhtar Prokopyevsk club .

sons and daughters of the town

• Boris Sidorow (1937–2008), chess composer
• Nikolai Nogowizyn (* 1948), Nordic combined athlete
• Igor Plewe (* 1958), historian
• Jakow Tolstikow (* 1959), marathon runner
• Andrei Charlow (1968-2014), chess player
• Mikhail Chernov (* 1978), ice hockey player
• Grigori Drosd (* 1979), professional boxer and WBC world cruiserweight champion
• Sergei Zinoviev (* 1980), ice hockey player
• Pavel Andreev (* 1983), triathlete
• Sergei Korostin (* 1989), ice hockey player

literature

• Wilhelm Mensing: From the Ruhr to the GULag. Victims of Stalin's mass terror from the Ruhr area. Essen 2001 (regarding the period 1931–1937)

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 : Prokopyevsk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Prokopyevsk on mojgorod.ru
• http://prokopievsk.ru/
• http://www.memorial.krsk.ru/deu/Dokument/Publik/2001081.htm (deportations)