Turinsk

Federal district	Ural
Oblast	Sverdlovsk
Rajon	Turinsk
mayor	Anatoly Tuschnolobov
Founded	1600
City since	1689
surface	28 km²
population	17,925 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	640 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	80 m
Time zone	UTC + 5
Telephone code	(+7) 34349
Post Code	623900-623905
License Plate	66, 96, 196
OKATO	65 254 501
Geographical location
Coordinates	58 ° 2 ' N , 63 ° 42' E Coordinates: 58 ° 2 '0 " N , 63 ° 42' 0" E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Turinsk ( Russian Туринск ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 17,925 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the west of the West Siberian lowlands , about 250 km northeast of the oblast capital Yekaterinburg on the right bank of the Tura , a left tributary of the Tobol in the Ob river system .

Turinsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

The city lies on the Yekaterinburg - Tawda railway line, which opened in 1916 . The city's station is called Turinsk-Uralsky .

history

Old city coat of arms (1785)

Turinsk was founded in 1600 as an ostrog on the land and river route to the newly conquered areas of Siberia (later called the Siberian Tract ), after the settlement Jepantschin (-Yurt) , the center of the possessions of the Khanty prince Jepansy, in 1581 by a unit of the Cossack ataman Jermak had been destroyed.

The place was especially in the first half of the 17th century the center of the Russian colonization of Siberia and received city rights in 1689, but lost its importance as a trade and transport center in the course of the 18th century.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the city was the center of handicrafts (wood carving, gold embroidery , icon painting ) as well as the shoemaker and blacksmith's trade.

The POW camp 197 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War was located in Turinsk .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	3,167
1926	4,500
1939	10,444
1959	18,838
1970	22,216
1979	22,899
1989	23,189
2002	19,313
2010	17,925

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

In Turinsk there is a museum of local history and a Decembrist museum (several Decembrists , including Pushkin's friend Ivan Pushchin , were exiled here ).

Turinsk is also a balneological spa based on 37 ° C warm iodine - bromine - medicinal water .

economy

The main branch of the economy is the wood processing industry (cellulose, paper, matches). There is also a supplier for the Ural motorcycle factory in Irbit as well as a food industry based on agricultural products (grain, cattle, pigs) produced in the outskirts of the city.

sons and daughters of the town

Margarita Terechowa (born 1942), actress
Juri Sorin (* 1947), hurdler and sprinter

Individual evidence

↑ ^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)
↑ 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 : Turinsk - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Turinsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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.


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