Schichany

city Shichany Chihana flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Saratov Urban district Schichany mayor Stanislaw Nesterow Founded 1928 City since 1996 population 6067 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84593 Post Code 412950 License Plate 64, 164 OKATO 63 545 Website www.zatoshihany.nm.ru Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 7 '  N , 47 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '0 "  N , 47 ° 12' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Saratov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Schichany ( Russian Шиханы ) is a small town in the Saratov Oblast ( Russia ) with 6067 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 130 km north of the Oblast capital Saratov , 15 km from the right bank of the Volga .

Schichany is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and is one of the Closed Cities of Russia. The city consists of a civil part, unofficially Shichany-1 , and a military part about two kilometers southeast, unofficially Shichany-2 .

The city lies on the railway line Atkarsk - Wolsk , opened in 1895 , which was extended in 1966 over the dam of the Saratov reservoir via Balakowo to Pugachev .

history

In the 19th century, a village of the same name with the country seat of Count Vasily Orlow-Denisov (1775–1843), a hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, existed in place of today's town .

In 1928 the village was cleared and a warfare agent test site for the Red Army with an associated military settlement was set up. In the same year, the German Reichswehr and German chemists were allowed to develop and test their own warfare agents on the site. The German cover name of the top secret object was Tomka . The Soviet-German cooperation lasted until July / August 1933, but Schichany remained one of the most important chemical weapons locations of the Soviet army even after that .

The military settlement was later given the code name Wolsk-18 . Today's Schichany-1 was built in the 1930s ; In 1932 the station was built there on the Atkarsk – Wolsk line. The later code name of this district was Wolsk-17 . In 1938 the status of a (secret) urban-type settlement was given.

In 1961 the Central Scientific and Technical Institute of the Chemical Troops of the Soviet Army was relocated to Schichany.

On October 26th, 1996 the town charter was granted, in 1997 the status of closed town was renewed.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5,720
1959	6,026
1970	8,805
1979	10,283
1989	12,763
2002	6,738
2010	6,067

Note: census data

economy

The main economic factors are the facilities of the Russian Armed Forces as well as the Scientific Research Institute for Radiation, Chemical and Bioweapon Protection and the State Institute for Organic Synthesis Technology with an experimental plant.

See also

• List of cities in Saratov 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)
2. ↑ Henning Sietz: It smells like mustard! in: Die Zeit, June 22, 2006

Web links

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