Chebarkul

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Tschebarkul (disambiguation) .

city Chebarkul Chebarkul flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Chelyabinsk Urban district Chebarkul head Andrei Orlov Founded 1736 City since 1951 surface 71.13  km² population 42,844 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 602 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 330  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35168 Post Code 456439-456449 License Plate 74, 174 OKATO 75 458 Website www.chebarcul.ru Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 59 ′  N , 60 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 60 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Chelyabinsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Tschebarkul ( Russian Чебаркуль ) is a city in the Chelyabinsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 42,844 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the southern Urals about 80 km west of the Oblast capital Chelyabinsk on the lake of the same name .

Tschebarkul is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

The city is located on the southern branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway Moscow - Samara - Chelyabinsk - Omsk (2024 km from Moscow). The M5 Moscow – Chelyabinsk highway runs a few kilometers south of the city .

history

Tschebarkul was built in 1736 as a fortress near the border between Russian and Bashkir territory. The name was derived from the Bashkir ( sibar kul ) or Tatar ( chybar kul ) words for beautiful or colorful lake . The place was a transit point for food deliveries to the Cossack troops in the southern Urals and later became a Cossack st anitsa itself . On October 25, 1951, Tschebarkul received city rights.

Part of the Chelyabinsk meteor of February 15, 2013, in the form of a meteorite, penetrated the ice cover of Lake Chebarkul, leaving a hole six meters in diameter.

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  New Chebarkul train station

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  Soviet city ​​coat of arms (1974)

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3.712
1959	30,941
1970	37,479
1979	45,845
1989	50,062
2002	47,144
2010	42,844

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The city has a local museum.

At the nearby lake Chebarkul there are several recreational and health resorts , as Kissegatsch ( Кисегач ) and Jelowoje ( Еловое ).

economy

The Uralskaja Kuznitsa AG (“Uralsschmiede”) produces cast and forged parts as well as welded constructions for mechanical engineering in Chebarkul . There is also a crane and heating plant, construction and wood industries as well as the light and food industries.

useful information

• In the years 1967-68 Valery Kharlamov and Alexander Gusew (both later famous HK-CSKA-Moscow ice hockey players) played in Chebarkul for the ice hockey club "Zvezda" .
• The "Meteor of Chelyabinsk" was initially named "Meteor of Chebarkul", the final name was given by the Meteoritical Society .

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. ↑ Tagesanzeiger: Military discovered six-meter crater. Retrieved February 15, 2013 . 
3. ↑ 20 minutes online: Weather satellite filmed entry into the earth's atmosphere. Retrieved February 15, 2013 . 

Web links

Commons : Tschebarkul  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Tschebarkul on mojgorod.ru (Russian)