Chuguevka

Village Tschugujewka Чугуевка Federal district far East region Primorye Rajon Chuguevka Founded 1905 population 12,171 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 260  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 42372 Post Code 692620-692623 License Plate 25, 125 OKATO 05 255 000 001 Geographical location Coordinates 44 ° 10 '  N , 133 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 10 '0 "  N , 133 ° 52' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Primorye region

List of large settlements in Russia

Tschugujewka ( Russian Чугу́евка ) is a village in the Primorye region ( Russia ) with 12,171 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is located in the Far East of Russia in the western part of the densely forested Sichote-Alin , which has the character of a low mountain range , almost 200 kilometers (as the crow flies) northeast of the regional capital Vladivostok . Tschugujewka is located at the mouth of the stream of the same name in the Ussuri , which separates the Eastern Blue Ridge (Vostotschny sini chrebet) to the west from the Belki ridge with the 1,433 meter high Isjubrinaja ("Deer Mountain") east of Chugujewka.

Chugujewka, one of the largest villages in the Russian Far East, is the administrative center of the Chugujewka Rajon of the same name .

history

The village was founded on September 13, 1903 by Old Believer resettlers from the central Siberian governorates of Tomsk and Yeniseisk and quickly developed into a local center.

During the occupation of the Far East by Japanese troops in the early 1920s as a result of the Russian Civil War , Chuguevka was one of the centers of the partisan movement .

In 1935 the place became the administrative center of a Rajons.

At the beginning of the 1970s, the place was reached by a railway line, which had already reached Warfolomejewka , 57 km to the west, starting in 1940 from the Mansowka station (today Sibirzewo ) of the Trans-Siberian Railway . The planned extension to the east was not carried out, but is still part of the long-term planning (“Strategy 2030”) of the Russian Railways . However, the railway connection brought about an economic upswing in the Chugujewka area, and the population of the village doubled in the 1980s compared to the 1960s.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2,802
1959	5,201
1970	7,387
1979	9,629
1989	12,427
2002	13,680
2010	12,171

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Since 1981 there has been an Alexander Fadejew Literature and Memorial Museum in Chugujewka . The mountain landscape of the Sichote-Alin, which rises to 1856 meters in the southeast of the Rajon with the mountain Oblachnaya ("Cloud Mountain"), is worth seeing.

Economy and Infrastructure

The main branch of the economy is forestry. Building materials and zeolites are mined nearby, and there is a small chemical factory. In the area there is agriculture of local importance with cattle farming and the cultivation of potatoes and vegetables.

Tschugujewka is the end point of the 163-kilometer railway line from Sibirzewo on the Trans-Siberian Railway via Arsenyev (station name Novotschugujewka ; a good five kilometers north of the village). The route crosses the two arms of the Ussuri directly in front of the train station on an approximately 350-meter-long bridge.

North of the village, the regional road leads A181 over, Ussuriysk on the highway M60 Khabarovsk -Wladiwostok about Arsenyev with the mining centers kavalerovo and Dalnegorsk in the eastern region and the coast of the Sea of Japan at Rudnaja pristane connects.

Almost ten kilometers south of the village there is a base of the Russian Air Force ( ICAO code UHS2 ; also called Sokolowka or Bulyga-Fadejewo after smaller villages ; or Sandagou after the old - until 1972 - name of the latter village and Ussuri this section of its course). From there, on September 6, 1976, Lieutenant Viktor Belenko took off with his MiG-25P to desert to Hakodate in Japan. Today MiG-31 are stationed in Chugujewka .

Personalities

• Alexander Fadejew (1901–1956), writer, spent childhood and youth in Chugujewka

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. ↑ Article in the newspaper of the RŽD from October 9, 2008 (Russian)
3. ↑ Fadeyev Museum at museum.ru (Russian)
4. ↑ Chugujewka on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)

Web links

• Chuguevka Raion Administration on the Regional Administration website (Russian)