Slavgorod

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city
Slavgorod
Славгород
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Federal district Siberia
region Altai
Urban district Slavgorod
head Sergei Vladimirovich Gorbunov
Founded 1910
City since 1917
surface 58  km²
population 32,389 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density 558 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center 120  m
Time zone UTC + 7
Telephone code (+7) 38568
Post Code 65882x
License Plate 22nd
OKATO 01 419
Website www.slavgorod.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates 53 ° 0 ′  N , 78 ° 39 ′  E Coordinates: 53 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 78 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E
Slavgorod (Russia)
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Situation in Russia
Slavgorod (Altai region)
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Location in the Altai region
List of cities in Russia

Slavgorod ( Russian Славгород ) is a city in the Altai region in southern Western Siberia ( Russia ) with 32,389 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the west of the Kulunda steppe , about 400 km west of the regional capital Barnaul near the border with Kazakhstan . Immediately by the city is the lake Sikatschi , about eight kilometers south of the city Jarowoje with the salt lake Bolschoje Jarowoje .

The city of Slavgorod is administratively directly subordinate to the region and at the same time the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

The Tatarsk - Karassuk - Kulunda connection between the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Pavlodar - Barnaul line runs through Slavgorod .

history

Slavgorod was created in 1910 as part of the resettlement of farmers in the western part of the Kulunda steppe, which was previously rarely used for agriculture.

In 1914 the place was reached by a branch line branching off from the Trans-Siberian Railway in Tatarsk , the Kulunda Railway . The importance of the place grew quickly and so it received city rights in 1917. The city name was derived from the Russian words slawa for fame and gorod for city .

In 1924 the railway line was initially extended to Kulunda. The place gained industrial importance during World War II , when a forging press plant from Serpukhov and a chemical plant from Krasnoperekopsk were relocated here.

Population development

year Residents
1926 17,784
1939 21,405
1959 38,413
1970 32,908
1979 32,135
1989 34,864
2002 34,335
2010 32,389

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In the planned city, individual buildings from the founding time at the beginning of the 20th century have been preserved. The town's local history museum is housed in one of these houses.

The area around Slavgorod is one of the main settlement areas for Russian Germans ; the national district of Halbstadt extends only a few kilometers northeast. The erection of a Thälmann memorial during the Soviet Union should also be understood in this context .

economy

In addition to mechanical engineering companies (forging presses) and the chemical industry ( Altaichimprom ), there is the construction industry and, in particular, the food industry, as Slavgorod is one of the centers of the important agricultural area of ​​the Kulunda steppe .

sons and daughters of the town

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)

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