Scholokhovsky

Urban-type settlement Sholokhovsky olokhovsky flag Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Rostov Rajon Belokalitvinsky head Mikhail Kazakov Founded 1953 Earlier names Maiski / Scholochowka (1953–1955) Urban-type settlement since 1955 population 8306 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86383 Post Code 347022 License Plate 61, 161 OKATO 60 206 558 Website sholohovgp.ru Geographical location Coordinates 48 ° 17 '  N , 41 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 16 '50 "  N , 41 ° 2' 50"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Rostov Oblast

Scholochowski ( Russian Шо́лоховский ) is an urban-type settlement in the Rostov Oblast ( Russia ) with 8,306 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is a good 150 km as the crow flies northeast of the Rostov-on-Don Oblast Administrative Center in the area of ​​the watershed between the Bystraja , which flows 7 km to the east and the Kalitwa , which flows 10 km to the west , both left tributaries of the Seversky Donets .

Scholochowski belongs to the Belokalitvinski Rajons , is located a good 20 km northwest of its administrative seat Belaya Kalitwa and is the seat and only locality of the municipality Scholochowskoje gorodskoje posselenije.

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  1950s residential building in the town center

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  Culture house

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  hospital

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  Sports complex

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  Viktor von Nicomedia Church (consecrated 2013)

history

After the discovery of a coal deposit in the field, there were 1950 plans, there manholes to sink and establish a workers' settlement. These were implemented from 1952. The first buildings in the village, initially Maiski (derived from the name of the month) or, unofficially, Scholochowka , were built in 1953.  Workers from Bulgaria were also involved in the construction of the settlement - initially in the “Stalinist style” , which is now remembered by a Dimitrov bust and street . On August 4, 1955, the place received the status of an urban-type settlement under the current name of the geologist under whose direction the coal deposit was discovered. Three mines started operations between 1958 and 1964.

From the 1990s, coal mining in the area experienced a decline, causing the population to decline significantly; the last mine near Scholochowski closed in 2002.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	8,137
1970	13,983
1979	13,724
1989	13,328
2002	10,077
2010	8,306

Note: census data

traffic

The federal highway A260 (part of European route 40 ) runs south of the settlement from the Ukrainian border (from Donetsk  - Luhansk ) via Kamensk-Shakhtinsky to Volgograd .

The next train station is Grachi , about 10 km southwest, at 71 km of the line from Lichaya (in Lichowskoi, now part of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky) to Volgograd, which opened in 1900. A freight connection line leading from there to the mines around Scholochowski was shut down and dismantled for the last few kilometers from a briquette factory that was still in operation 5 km southwest of the settlement after mining was stopped.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Tatjana Kotowa (* 1985), beauty queen (Miss Russia 2006) and singer

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 : Scholochowski  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)