Shchigry
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Shchigry
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List of cities in Russia |
Shchigry ( Russian Щигры ) is a city in the Kursk Oblast ( Russia ) with 17,040 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 60 km northeast of the Oblast capital Kursk on the rivers Shchigor (also Shchigra ) and Lesnaya Plata in the river system of the Don .
Shchigry is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .
history
In the place of the present city there was the village Troitskoye na Shchigrach in the 17th century , named after the Trinity village church (Russian Troitskaya zerkow , from Troiza ) and the regional, popular name shchigor for forested hills.
In 1779 the town charter was granted as the administrative center of a district (Ujesds) under its current name.
The main livelihoods of the population in the 19th century were agriculture and pig breeding.
On April 7, 1923, the first iron ore of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly was discovered near Shchigry .
During the Second World War , Shchigry was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on November 21, 1941 and recaptured on February 5, 1943 by troops of the Voronezh Front of the Red Army as part of the Battle of Kharkov .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 6,061 |
1926 | 4,400 |
1939 | 7,639 |
1959 | 11,405 |
1970 | 17.133 |
1979 | 20,572 |
1989 | 21,187 |
2002 | 19,582 |
2010 | 17,040 |
Note: census data (1926 rounded)
Culture and sights
The city has a local museum.
Economy and Infrastructure
In Shchigry there is a plant for geological exploration equipment ( Geomasch ), a plastics factory ( Plastpolimer ) and companies in the building materials and food industries.
The city lies on the Kursk – Voronezh railway line, opened in 1894 .
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
- Shchigry on mojgorod.ru (Russian)