Shchigry

city Shchigry Chigry coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kursk Urban district Shchigry mayor Pavel Moiseyev First mention 17th century City since 1779 surface 21  km² population 17,040 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 811 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 220  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47145 Post Code 306530 License Plate 46 OKATO 38 415 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 52 '  N , 36 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 52 '0 "  N , 36 ° 54' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kursk Oblast

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

Trinity Church

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
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

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 : Shchigry  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shchigry on mojgorod.ru (Russian)