Chuguyevka (air base)

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

Geography

The village is located in the Russian Far East in the western part of the mountain character here means supporting, densely forested Sikhote Alin, almost 200 kilometers (direct distance) north-east of the regional capital Vladivostok. Tschugujewka lies at the mouth of the creek of the same name in the Ussuri River, which separates here the up to 943 meters high, the Eastern Blue Ridge ( Vostochny sini Chrebet ) in the west by Belki Crest with the 1433 -meter high mountain Isjubrinaja ( " Hirschberg " ) east of Tschugujewka.

Tschugujewka, which is one of the largest villages in the Russian Far East, is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Tschugujewka.

History

The village was founded on September 13, 1903 by Old Believers evacuees from the Central Siberian Tomsk governorates and Yenisejsk and quickly became a local center.

During the occupation of the Far East by Japanese troops at the beginning of the 1920s as a result of the Russian Civil War Tschugujewka was one of the centers of the partisan movement.

In 1935, the city administrative center of a Rajons.

At the beginning of the 1970s, the place was reached by a railway line which, starting from the station Mansowka (now Sibirzewo ) had the Trans-Siberian Railway reached the 57 kilometer west location Warfolomejewka 1940. The planned further construction to the east was omitted, but is still part of the long-term planning ( " Strategy 2030 ") of the Russian Railways. However, by the rail connection came in the area around Tschugujewka to an economic recovery, and the population of the village grew up in the 1980s compared to the 1960s, on the double.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

Since 1981 there are in Tschugujewka an Alexander Fadeev - Literature and Memorial Museum. Worth the mountains of Sikhote -Alin, located in the southeast of the Rajons with the mountain Oblatschnaja ( " Cloud Mountain" ) is rising up to 1856 meters.

Economy and infrastructure

The main industry is forestry. Nearby materials and zeolites are mined, there is a small chemical factory. In the area of local agriculture significant is operated with cattle and growing potatoes and vegetables.

Tschugujewka is the terminus of the 163 -kilometer railway line from Sibirzewo on the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Arsenyev ( station name Nowotschugujewka, about five kilometers north of the town ). The route crosses the two arms of the Ussuri directly outside the station on an approximately 350 -meter-long bridge.

North of the village passes by the regional road A181, linking the Ussurijsk on the M60 highway Khabarovsk to Vladivostok via Arsenyev with the mining centers Kawalerowo and Dalnegorsk in the east of the region and the coast of the Sea of ​​Japan at Rudnaja pristane.

Just ten kilometers south of the town is a base of the Russian Air Force ( ICAO code UHS2, after closer smaller villages also Sokolowka or Bulyga - Fadejewo called, or Sandagou according to the old - on behalf of the latter village and the Ussuri - to 1972 this section of its course ). From there, launched on 6 September 1976, the Lieutenant Viktor Belenko with his MiG -25P to desert to Hakodate in Japan. Today, even the MiG -31 are stationed in Tschugujewka next MiG -25.

Personalities

• Alexander Fadeev (1901-1956), writer, spent his childhood and youth in Tschugujewka