Volchansk

Federal district	Ural
Oblast	Sverdlovsk
Urban district	Volchansk
mayor	Alexander Burgardt
First mention	18th century
City since	1956
surface	63 km²
population	10,010 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	159 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	240 m
Time zone	UTC + 5
Telephone code	(+7) 34383
Post Code	624940, 624941
License Plate	66, 96, 196
OKATO	65 445 503
Geographical location
Coordinates	59 ° 56 ' N , 60 ° 3' E Coordinates: 59 ° 56 '0 " N , 60 ° 3' 0" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Wolchansk ( Russian Волчанск ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,010 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Urals , about 450 km north of the oblast capital Yekaterinburg . The climate is continental.

The city of Volchansk forms an independent urban district and is located about 15 km north of the city of Karpinsk .

Volchansk is located on the railway line opened in 1935 (freight traffic only) Serow - Krasnoturjinsk ( Vorontsovka station ) - Severouralsk . The city's station is called Lesnaya Volchanka .

history

Since the 18th century in the area of today's Woltchansk a settlement was known under the name Walt saddle or Woltscha later Lesnaja Woltschanka based on the name of the current flowing here and east in Sosva opens creek Woltschanka (adaptation of a Russian pre-designation of a Derivation from the Russian wolk for wolf ).

In 1942 the mining of the lignite deposits discovered here began to supply the power plants and smelting works in the area (such as Karpinsk, Krasnoturjinsk , Serow ). During the war and in the first post-war years, inmates of a branch of the Krasnoturjinsk Bogoslowski penal camp , including deported Soviet citizens of German descent , as well as prisoners of war, were used in coal mining, construction, ammunition production and forestry around Volchansk .

In 1956 the place received city rights under its current name. As a result, however, coal production declined and importance such as population decreased significantly.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	25,031
1970	18,257
1979	14,819
1989	14,814
2002	11,043
2010	10,010

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Tram in Volchansk

There has been a small local museum in Volchansk since 2000.

Economy and Transport

In addition to lignite mining, there are construction (asphalt, brick) and timber industries.

Volchansk is one of the smallest cities with its own tram : the 7 km long line opened on December 31, 1951 and carries around 400,000 passengers a year.

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)
↑ Bogoslowski-ITL in the GULAG Internet portal of Memorial Deutschland e. V.

Web links

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

City district Volchansk on the website of the Duma of the Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russian)
Private website about the Volchansk tram ( memento of March 10, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian, photos)
Volchansk 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] Bogoslowski-ITL in the GULAG Internet portal of Memorial Deutschland e. V.


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