Cherepovets

city Cherepovets Череповец flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Vologda Urban district Cherepovets mayor Yuri Kusin Founded 1777 City since 1777 surface 121  km² population 312,310 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2581 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 8202 Post Code 162600-162627 License Plate 35 OKATO 19 430 Website www.cherinfo.ru Geographical location Coordinates 59 ° 8 ′  N , 37 ° 54 ′  E Coordinates: 59 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  N , 37 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Vologda Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Tscherepowez ( Russian Черепове́ц , scientific transliteration Čerepovec ) is a city in northwestern Russia . With 312,310 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) it is the largest city in Vologda Oblast .

geography

Cherepovets is located about 375 km (as the crow flies ) north of Moscow and 110 km west of the oblast capital Vologda . It is located on the Sheksna River , on the north bank of the Rybinsk Reservoir . Cherepovets is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

Church of the Nativity in Cherepovets

Around 1360 a monastery was founded in the hills near the Scheksna. The Cherepovets settlement was later built around it and was granted city rights in 1777. In Wepsisch , the language of the Finnish inhabitants of this area, the city name means something like "Our Fish Mountain".

In the city there was a prisoner of war camp 437 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War . Seriously ill people were cared for in the two prisoner-of-war hospitals 3739 and 5091 . Hospital 5091 was also assigned to POW camp 158 in Vologda and POW camp 150 Grjasowez . At several prisoner of war cemeteries, over 30,000 dead were buried, mostly in mass graves.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	6,948
1926	21,783
1939	32,353
1959	92,356
1970	188,348
1979	265.933
1989	310.463
2002	311,869
2010	312.310

Note: census data

economy

Cherepovets is the most important industrial city in the region. Iron works, steel works (for example Severstal , the second largest steel producer in Russia and No. 15 in the world), large shipyards and chemical companies are located here. The coal required for processing is supplied from Vorkuta , the iron ore from the Kola peninsula . There are also sawmills in which the wood from the surrounding coniferous forests is processed. For the development of industry in Cherepovets, the convenient location at the crossroads of the important waterways and railways in Northern Russia was decisive.

traffic

The city has an inland port on the Volga-Baltic Sea Canal . The federal highway A114 , which connects the oblast capital Vologda with Novaya Ladoga near Saint Petersburg , runs near Cherepovets . The Severstal Aircompany is based at the airport , which is 25 km north of the city .

education

Cherepovets is the seat of the Cherepovets State University .

Sports

One of the best-known sports clubs in Cherepovets is the HK Severstal Tscherepowez ice hockey club , which takes part in the continental hockey league (KHL) . Its home arena is the multi-purpose hall Ice Palace Tscherepowez , which was completed in 2007 and has a capacity of almost 6,000 spectators and is used for concerts as well as ice hockey games.

Town twinning

Cherepovets lists the following twin cities :

• Aiud , Romania
• Gorna Orjachowiza , Bulgaria
• Celje , Slovenia
• Derry, New Hampshire , United States
• Liaoyuan , People's Republic of China
• Maladsetschna , Belarus
• Montclair , United States
• Raahe , Finland
• Balakovo , Russia
• Klaipėda , Lithuania

sons and daughters of the town

• Vasily Vereschagin (1842–1904), painter
• Alexander Kutepov (1882–1930), general during the Russian Civil War
• Valentina Borissenko (1920–1993), chess player
• Yuri Kajurow (born 1927), actor
• Alexander Baschlatschow (1960–1988), poet, songwriter and singer
• Sergei Fokitschew (* 1963), speed skater
• Alexei Mordaschow (* 1965), entrepreneur
• Dmitri Yushkewitsch (* 1971), ice hockey player
• Vladimir Vorobyov (born 1972), ice hockey player
• Alexei Kosnew (* 1975), ice hockey player
• Mikhail Panschin (* 1983), ice hockey player
• Yuri Trubachev (born 1983), ice hockey player
• Andrei Lamow (* 1986), ski orienteer
• Igor Skorokhodov (born 1986), ice hockey player
• Stanislaw Yegorschew (* 1987), ice hockey player
• Vadim Schipachev (* 1987), ice hockey player
• Yuri Alexandrov (* 1988), ice hockey player
• Dmitri Kagarlizki (* 1989), ice hockey player
• Yevgeny Mons (* 1989), ice hockey player
• Alexander Rachmanov (* 1989), chess player
• Bogdan Kisselewitsch (* 1990), ice hockey player
• Yevgenia Lalenkova (* 1990), speed skater
• Maxim Tschudinow (* 1990), ice hockey player
• Pavel Butnevich (* 1995), ice hockey player

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. ↑ 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

Commons : Cherepovets  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Tscherepowez  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Cherepovets on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• As a construction worker in the Soviet Union - report from four years of imprisonment, including in Cherepovets
• About Cherepovets for tourists (Russian)