Semiluki

city Semiluki Семилуки flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Voronezh Rajon Semiluki First mention 1615 City since 1954 surface 14  km² population 26,023 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1859 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47372 Post Code 396900-396902 License Plate 36, 136 OKATO 20 249 501 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 41 '  N , 39 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 41 '0 "  N , 39 ° 2' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Voronezh Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Semiluki ( Russian Семилуки ) is a city in the Voronezh Oblast ( Russia ) with 26,023 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Semiluki is the western satellite city of the oblast capital Voronezh and is only about 10 km from the city center. The city is located on the Central Russian Plate on the right bank of the Don .

Semiluki is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .

The city lies on the Kursk – Voronezh railway line , which crosses the Don here.

history

Semiluki was first mentioned as a village in Voronezh city documents in 1615. The name is derived from the toponym U semi luk , in Russian literally at the seven river bends , ie “several river bends of the Don”.

Towards the end of the 19th century, a large part of the population was employed in the limestone and sandstone quarries in the area. A station settlement was created in connection with the opening of the railway line in 1894.

The old village and the station settlement gradually grew together. In 1929 a large plant for refractory materials was created ; In 1931 the place became the administrative center of a Rajons.

During the Second World War , Semiluki was occupied by the German Wehrmacht on July 4, 1942 and recaptured on January 25, 1943 by troops of the Voronezh Front of the Red Army . During the war, 90 percent of the place was destroyed, especially since the front line ran in the immediate vicinity for six months, in the urban area of ​​Voronezh.

In connection with the rebuilding of the refractory materials plant, which had been destroyed in the war, Semiluki was granted town charter in 1954.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	7,331
1959	13,323
1970	18,221
1979	20,243
1989	21,650
2002	25,559
2010	26,023

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The Semiluki station building

In Semiluki Rajon there are a number of archaeological monuments from the Early and Middle Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC), the Scythian period (4th to 3rd centuries BC) and the Old Russian period (12th to 13th centuries ).

economy

The most important company in the city is the refractory materials factory based on the nearby mined rocks (another factory is located in the urban-type Latnaya settlement of the Semiluki district). There are also other companies in the building materials industry, a chemical factory and the food industry.

sons and daughters of the town

• Alexander Wassiljewitsch Tkatschow (* 1957), Olympic champion in gymnastics

See also

• List of cities in Voronezh Oblast

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 : Semiluki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Private website about the city (Russian)
• Semiluki on mojgorod.ru (Russian)