Verkhneuralsk

city Verkhneuralsk Верхнеуральск flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Chelyabinsk Rajon Verkhneuralsk mayor Igor Surmenev Founded 1734 City since 1781 surface 50  km² population 9,457 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 189 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 412  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35143 Post Code 457670-457672 License Plate 74, 174 OKATO 75 217 501 Website www.verhneuralsk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 53 '  N , 59 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '0 "  N , 59 ° 13' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Chelyabinsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Nicholas Cathedral

Verkhneuralsk ( Russian Верхнеуральск ) is a city with 9,457 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Chelyabinsk Oblast in Russia .

location

The city lies on the eastern slope of the Southern Urals . The Oblast capital Chelyabinsk is about 460 km away, the Magnitogorsk train station (on the Ufa - Kartaly line ) about 60 km. It is the administrative center of the Rajons Verkhneuralsk .

history

Verkhneuralsk is the oldest city in Chelyabinsk Oblast. It was in the winter months around the turn of the year 1734/35 under the name Werchnejaizkaja ( Russian Верхнеяицкая ; Yaik the name of the river was to 1755 Ural as a river port and fortress town on the so-called) Ui-line established. After the unsuccessful siege of the fortress by insurgents under the leadership of Jemeljan Pugachev in 1774, the settlement received city ​​rights in 1781 and became the administrative seat of its own Ujesd (district) within the Orenburg governorate . In the 18th and 19th centuries, Verkhneuralsk developed into a center of the textile industry, one of whose most important products was the so-called Orenburg cloth .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	11,095
1939	11.207
1959	11,679
1970	10,534
1979	10,530
1989	10,893
2002	10,054
2010	9,457

Note: census data

economy

Today Verkhneuralsk is the center of an agricultural region and is characterized by the food industry and wood processing companies.

Attractions

Since Verkneuralsk, in contrast to the neighboring cities, was not developed into an industrial center despite its former importance in the Soviet era, large parts of the historical building fabric have been preserved. The St. Nicholas Cathedral (Никольский собор) in the city center was built in 1875 with funds from the local merchant family Rytow according to plans by Konstantin Thon . Furthermore, the large number of historic residential and commercial buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries as well as the trading rows and the former parade ground of the Cossacks are worth mentioning.

Personalities

• Karl Radek (1885–1939), politician and journalist, probably died in 1939 in the Verkhneuralsk camp
• Nikolai Kashirin (1888–1938), military, was born near Verkhneuralsk
• Ivan Kaschirin (1890–1937), military and administrative officer, was born near Verkhneuralsk
• Grigory Chaljusin (1897–1975), Lieutenant General
• Olga Iwanowa (* 1993), Taekwondoin

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. ↑ Халюзин Григорий Алексеевич , az-libr.ru (Russian)

Web links

Commons : Verkneuralsk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rajon Administration website (Russian)
• City arms of Verkhneuralsk (English)
• Verkhneuralsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Verkhneuralsk Photos (Russian)