Sokol (Vologda)
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Sokol
Сокол
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List of cities in Russia |
Sokol ( Russian Сокол ) is a city in northwestern Russia . It is located in the Vologda Oblast and has 38,452 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city lies on the Suchona , the left headwaters of the Northern Dvina , about 35 km north of the Oblast capital Vologda . The closest town is Kadnikow , 12 km east of Sokol.
Sokol is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .
history
The place was first mentioned as the village of Sokolowo in 1615. With the establishment of a paper mill named after the village of Sokol (Russian for falcon ) in 1897, a workers' settlement of the same name was created, which received town charter in 1932 and became the third largest town in the oblast.
In the city there was the POW camp 193 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War . The prisoner of war hospital 3732 in Woschega, 140 km north, was assigned to the camp .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 29,039 |
1959 | 41,709 |
1970 | 48,253 |
1979 | 45.296 |
1989 | 46,604 |
2002 | 43,042 |
2010 | 38,452 |
Note: census data
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.
Web links
- Rajon Administration website (Russian)
- Sokol on mojgorod.ru (Russian)