Stroitel (Belgorod)

city Stroitel Строитель Federal district Central Russia Oblast Belgorod Rajon Yakovlevo Founded 1958 City since 2000 surface 33  km² population 23,933 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 725 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 220  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47244 Post Code 309070 License Plate 31 OKATO 14 258 501 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 47 '  N , 36 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '0 "  N , 36 ° 28' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Belgorod Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Stroitel ( Russian Строитель ) is a city in Belgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 23,933 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 20 km northwest of the oblast capital Belgorod in the area east (left) of the Worskla , a left tributary of the Dnieper .

Stroitel is the administrative center of the Rajons Jakowlewo .

history

Stroitel was created from 1958 in connection with the development of the iron ore deposits of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly and the planning of the Yakovlev opencast mine . The name means pathetic builder in Russian , on the other hand simply construction worker .

Urban-type settlement status was granted in 1960 and town charter in 2000.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	3,924
1979	9,895
1989	14,271
2002	18,400
2010	23,933

Note : census data

Culture and sights

In the village Kryukovo the Rajons is the Virgin Birth Church ( Рождествено-Богородицкая церковь / Roschdestweno-Bogorodizkaja Tserkov) in Tomarovka the Church of the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan , shortly Kazan Church ( Казанская церковь / Kazanskaya Tserkov) and Puschkarnoje the Assumption Assumption Church ( Успенская церковь / Uspenskaja zerkow) received.

In the settlement of Yakovlevo there is a memorial museum of the battle of the Kursk Arch , in the village of Alexejewka there is a museum for the theater actor Mikhail Shchepkin (1788–1863), one of the founders of the Russian drama school.

economy

The economy of Stroitel as an industrial satellite town of Belgorod is determined by companies in the construction and building materials industry.

The Jakowlewo iron ore mine ( Jakowlewski rudnik ) is located in the Rajon .

The city is the end of a 22-kilometer railway line that branches off the Belgorod– Sumy ( Ukraine ) line at Tomarowka station (freight traffic only); The closest passenger station is Saschnoye a good ten kilometers northeast on the Moscow - Kursk - Kharkiv route .

The M2 Moscow – Kursk – Belgorod – Ukrainian border and further to Kharkiv (part of the European route 95 ) runs east of Stroitel.

See also

• List of cities in Belgorod 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

• Stroitel on mojgorod.ru (Russian)