Shchuchye

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city Shchuchye Щучье flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Kurgan Rajon Shchuchansky Founded 1750 City since 1945 surface 35  km² population 10,973 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 314 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 165  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35244 Post Code 641010 License Plate 45 OKATO 37 244 501 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 13 ′  N , 62 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  N , 62 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Kurgan Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Shchuchye ( Russian Щучье ) is a city in Kurgan Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,973 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located east of the Urals , in the southwest of the West Siberian lowlands , about 180 km west of the oblast capital Kurgan . The climate is continental.

The city of Shchuchye is the administrative center of the Shchuchansky Rajon .

Shchuchye is located on the original West Siberian section of the Trans-Siberian Railway ( Chelyabinsk - Omsk ) , which was opened in October 1896, and on the M51 highway , part of the transcontinental road connection Moscow - Vladivostok , which bypasses the town to the north.

history

The village of Shchuchye was founded in 1750 on the lake of the same name (from Russian щука / shchuka for pike ). From 1892, the Trans-Siberian Railway, which opened on this section four years later, ran past the site. The railway station, called Tschumljak (Чумляк, until 1974), was built after a nearby river. In 1924 the village became the administrative center of a Rajon, and in 1945 the place received town charter.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	7,595
1959	10,272
1970	10,822
1979	10,379
1989	11.094
2002	10,602
2010	10,973

Note: census data

Attractions

In the vicinity, on the territory of the Rajon, there are about 140 lakes, including the Viktoria Bitter Lake (озеро Горькое-Виктория / osero Gorkoje-Viktorija). This salt lake ( sulfate - chloride - magnesium - sodium type) is a natural monument and has been used balneologically since 1910 (about 15 km southeast, 55 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  N , 62 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E ).

economy

In addition to a plant for fire extinguishers, there are companies in the food industry based on the agricultural production of the Rajons (grain, livestock farming).

Nearby is a larger chemical weapons warehouse for the Russian Armed Forces , in which about 5,400 tons of sarin , soman and VX are stored. A work is to be created in the place to destroy them.

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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. ↑ Rossiyskaya Gazeta , Ural Regional Edition, No. 191, August 30, 2006

Web links

• Shchuchye on mojgorod.ru (Russian)