Pugachev (city)
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Pugachev
Пугачёв
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List of cities in Russia |
Pugachev ( Russian Пугачёв ) is a city with 41,707 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Russian Oblast of Saratov . It is a city subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Pugachev district .
Geographical location
Pugachev is located in the northeastern part of the oblast, 246 km from its capital Saratov , on the Great Irgis . The nearest town is Balakowo 68 km west of Pugachev.
history
Pugachev was created after Empress Catherine II issued her manifesto for the settlement of the Volga plain in 1762 . The place was founded in 1764 as a settlement Mechetnaja ( Мечетная ) by old Orthodox who returned from Poland. The name Metschetnaja is derived from the ruins of Islamic mosques from the time of the Golden Horde found here. In 1765 the place already had 264 men. At that time the place consisted of only one street.
In 1772 Jemeljan Pugachev , the leader of the Pugachev peasant uprising , stayed in Mechetnaya. An old man is said to have advised him to present himself as the late Tsar Peter III. to spend.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the population had increased so much that after the tsarist decree of December 18, 1835, city rights were granted. At the same time the city was in honor of Nicholas I in Nikolaevsk renamed. In 1836 the city was named the capital of the Nikolayevsk district in the Samara governorate.
On November 11, 1918, the city was renamed again on the initiative of the Bolshevik military leader Vasily Chapayev . The new name Pugachev refers to Jemeljan Pugachev, the leader of the peasant uprising of 1773-75 (see above).
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 12,504 |
1939 | 24,454 |
1959 | 32,725 |
1970 | 33,963 |
1979 | 39,050 |
1989 | 40,947 |
2002 | 41,436 |
2010 | 41,707 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
The main industries in the city are:
- Flour mills
- Vodka distillery
- Large bakeries
The civil airport Pugachev is located about seven kilometers southwest of the city of Pugachev and has a 2300 meter long asphalt runway.
Personalities
- Alexei Tolstoy (1883–1945), Russian writer, was born near Nikolayevsk
See also
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 website (Russian)
- History of the Pugachev coat of arms (Russian)