Zhukov (city)

city Zhukov Chukov coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kaluga Rajon Zhukov mayor Sergei Soloduchin Founded Early 17th century Earlier names Ugodski Sawod (until 1974) Zhukowo (until 1996) City since 1996 surface 5  km² population 12,131 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2426 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 135  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code +7 (48432) Post Code 249190 License Plate 40 OKATO 29 213 501 Website www.my-zhukov.ru Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 2 '  N , 36 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 1 '30 "  N , 36 ° 43' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaluga Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Zhukov ( Russian Жуков ) is a city in Kaluga Oblast ( Russia ) with 12,131 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 90 km northwest of the Oblast capital Kaluga on the left bank of the Protwa , a left tributary of the Oka, which flows into the Volga .

Zhukov is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

Memorial stone for the foundation of the town

The place was founded at the beginning of the 17th century. Since 1656 he called himself Ugodski Sawod in connection with the opening of an ironworks like this one .

After the closure of the factory in 1780, the village became a trading center of the Ujesds district of Malojaroslavets . In the 19th century the place gradually lost its regional economic importance; The main occupation of the population was now the handicraft (e.g. carpentry and jewelry). At the turn of the 20th century, however, the village was the cultural center of the area; there was a choir, a theater, a library, a girls' Sunday school and the only bookstore in the district.

In 1974 the village was renamed in honor of Marshal Georgi Zhukov (1896–1974), who was born in the small village Strelkowka a few kilometers to the south (today belongs to the rural municipality of Verkhovye ) in Zhukovo . A few kilometers southwest of Ugodski Sawod / Schukowo , the Protwa workers' settlement emerged from 1957 in connection with the construction of a machine factory , and since 1962 had the status of an urban-type settlement . Protwa and the village of Zhukovo were united in 1996 and received city rights under the current name. Since then, the city's coat of arms shows Saint George , corresponding to Zhukov's first name.

Population development

year	Residents	comment
1959	2,226	Ugodski Zavod
1970	6,471	Protwa 3,579, Ugodski Sawod 2,892
1979	8,870	Protwa 5,729, Zhukovo 3,141
1989	10,380	Protwa 7,492, Zhukovo 2,888
2002	12.306
2010	12,131

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Zhukov Museum

In Zhukov is the monumental State G. K. Schukow Museum , which was founded during the Marshal's lifetime in 1960 - a time when he was officially “out of favor”. The current building was erected after the Marshal's death, as was an architecture and sculpture complex dedicated to him in his native Strelkowka .

In the village of Tarutino in the Zhukov district, where the headquarters of the Russian Commander-in-Chief Mikhail Kutuzov was temporarily located during the Patriotic War of 1812 , there is a museum and a memorial from 1834.

In Troizkoje the country seat of Princess are Ekaterina Dashkova (1743-1810; born Countess Vorontsova confidante of Catherine II. And protagonist of the Enlightenment in Russia) from the 18th century and her grave. In Spas-Prognanje there is a museum and the grave of the mathematician Pafnuti Chebyshev (1821-1894).

Economy and Infrastructure

In Zhukov there are companies in the textile industry ( Technotex ), the timber industry and the wood processing industry (furniture) as well as the food industry.

The city's nearest railway station is in Obninsk, about ten kilometers to the west, on the Moscow - Brjansk - Kiev railway line opened in 1899 (route kilometer 106; station name Obninskoje ).

The M3 Moscow – Brjansk – Ukrainian border (from there to Kiev) and A101 Moscow – Roslawl - Belarusian border pass Zhukov to the west near Obninsk .

Web links

Commons : Zhukov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Zhukov on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

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)