Stary Oskol

city Stary Oskol Старый Оскол flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Belgorod Rajon Stary Oskol head Pavel Shishkin Founded 1593 City since 1593 surface 199  km² population 221,085 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1111 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 4725 Post Code 309500-309518 License Plate 31 OKATO 14 440 Website oskolregion.ru Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 18 ′  N , 37 ° 50 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 37 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Belgorod Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Stary Oskol ( Russian Ста́рый Оско́л ) is a southern Russian city ​​in Belgorod Oblast . It is located around 500 km south of Moscow and 180 km northeast of the Ukrainian city ​​of Kharkiv on the Oskol River . The city has 221,085 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

Stary Oskol emerged from a fortress that was part of the southern ramparts around Moscow, and was founded in 1593 to secure the Russian Empire on the eastern border against attacks by the Crimean Tatars . The city was conquered by Poland in 1617 and burned down, only to be rebuilt a short time later. It was a theater of war in the Russian Civil War . In 1919 the city was briefly assigned to Ukraine . During the Second World War , Stary Oskol was occupied by the Wehrmacht from the summer of 1942 to February 1943 and liberated by the Voronezh Front units in the course of the Voronezh-Kastornoje operation . Industrialization and population growth began to a large extent only after the Second World War.

On May 5, 2011 the city was given the honorary title "City of Military Glory" by the then Russian President Dmitri Medvedev by ukase . She is the namesake of a submarine .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	15,617
1939	10,946
1959	27,474
1970	51,533
1979	114,946
1989	173.917
2002	215,898
2010	221.085

Note: census data

economy

Stary Oskol is a major iron ore mining town ; it lies on the edge of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly , one of the world's largest ore deposits. With the mining of over eight million tons of iron ore per year and the subsequent metalworking, Stary Oskol has made modest wealth over the past 50 years. The German Salzgitter AG played a key role in the planning and construction of the machines for iron ore extraction. The industry also produces mining equipment, machine parts and food.

In keeping with its importance in the iron ore industry, the city has a branch of the Moscow State Institute for Steel and Alloys .

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  Alexander Nevsky Church in Stary Oskol

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  Stary Oskol bus station

Town twinning

The city of Stary Oskol maintains a city ​​partnership with the following cities :

•  Salzgitter , since September 10, 1987
•  Asenovgrad , since August 28, 1988
•  Mänttä , since September 2, 1989

sons and daughters of the town

• Wladimir Machnowez (1869 / 1875–1921), theorist of economism and revolutionary
• Nikolai Rattel (1875–1939), General
• Michail Klewensky (1904–1954), Rear Admiral
• Anatoly Anpilov (1914–1994), Major General
• Mikhail Jemeljanow (* 1933), Russian diplomat
• Denis Lebedew (* 1979), professional boxer and WBA world cruiserweight champion since 2012
• Alexander Jemeljanenko (* 1981), Russian sambo and MMA fighter
• Dmitri Polyansky (* 1989), boxer
• Vladimir Nikitin (* 1990), boxer

See also

• List of cities in Belgorod Oblast
• Stary Oskol (submarine)

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)
2. ↑ Раттэль (Раттель) Николай Иосифович , grwar.ru (Russian)
3. ↑ Клевенский Михаил Сергеевич , nashapobeda.lv (Russian)
4. ↑ Анпилов Анатолий Андреевич , warheroes.ru (Russian)
5. ↑ Емельянов Михаил Павлович , eurasian-defence.ru (Russian)
6. ↑ Свободные бойцы: Александр Емельяненко , mixfight.ru (Russian)
7. ↑ Alexander Emelianenko , boxrec.com

Web links

Commons : Stary Oskol  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Stary Oskol on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Town twinning of Stary Oskol (Russian)