Shchuchinsk

Shchuchinsk Chuchinsk
coat of arms
Basic data
State :	Kazakhstan
Territory :	Aqmola
Audany:	Burabai
Founded :	1850
Coordinates :	52 ° 56 ′  N , 70 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  N , 70 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	395  m
Residents :	46,870 (Jan 1, 2020)
Time zone :	EKST ( UTC + 6 )
Telephone code :	(+7) 71636
Postal code :	021700
License plate :	03 (old: C, O, W)
Community type:	city
Location in Kazakhstan

Shchuchinsk ( Kazakh and Russian Щучинск ) is a city in Kazakhstan .

history

Shchuchinsk was founded in 1850 as a settlement Shchuchye ( посёлок Щучье ). In 1939 the place was granted city rights.

Geographical location

The city is located 75 km southeast of the city of Kokshetau in the Aqmola area on Lake Shchuchye . Shchuchinsk is also the administrative seat of the Burabai district .

population

The city has 46,870 (2020) inhabitants.

Population development
1959	1970	1979	1989	1999	2009
39.208	40,432	47,948	55,539	45.254	44.106

traffic

The A1 trunk road runs near Shchuchinsk and begins in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan and leads north to Petropavl .

Sports

With the National Ski Center, Shchuchinsk has owned the most modern ski jumping facility in Kazakhstan since 2018. It consists of a normal hill HS 99 and a large hill HS 140 as well as three further junior hills.

Twin cities

• Jermuk , Armenia

sons and daughters of the town

• Jerden Äbdirachmanow (* 1976), biathlete
• Sergei Abdukarow (* 1974), biathlete
• Nikolai Braitschenko (* 1986), biathlete
• Andrej Gridin (* 1988), cross-country skier
• Swetlana Kapanina (* 1968), aerobatic pilot
• Yevgeny Koschewoi (* 1984), cross-country skier
• Anna Lebedewa (* 1981), biathlete
• Alina Kolomijez , née Raikowa (* 1991), biathlete
• Vladimir Smirnov (* 1964), cross-country skier
• Nikolai Tschebotko (* 1982), cross-country skier
• Yevgeny Welitschko (* 1987), cross-country skier

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Численность населения Республики Казахстан по полу в разрезе областей и столицы, столицы, столицы, анколицы, столицы, городоав, областей и столицы, анкония, горойцы, коники, городоав,. ( Excel ; 96 KB) stat.gov.kz, accessed on July 19, 2020 (Russian). 
2. ^ Kazakhstan: Cities and towns. pop-stat.mashke.org, accessed on August 5, 2019.
3. ↑ Shchuchinsk. In: skisprungschanzen.com. September 1, 2005, accessed on February 23, 2019 (German).