Anzhero-Sudzhensk

Anzhero Sudschensk (Russian Анжеро - Судженск ) is a city in Kemerovo Oblast in Siberia (Russia) with 76 646 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). It lies on the Trans-Siberian Railway (approximately at kilometer 3600), about 3,000 km as the crow east of Moscow.

  • 4.1 See also
  • 4.2 Literature
  • 4.3 Notes and references
  • 4.4 External links

History

The town was founded in 1928 by merging the two municipalities Anscherka ( Анжерка ) and Sudschenka ( Судженка ). Anzhero Sudschensk received city rights in 1931 and has a local history museum.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

The main economic activities are mining (coal ), mechanical engineering and the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

In the mining of Anzhero Sudschensk worked in the early 1930s many foreign miners who had come as economic migrants in the Soviet Union, including some originating mainly from the Ruhr German. For these " guest workers" in the city was its own " colony " built. Almost all of those who had not returned to 1935 /36 in the home, were victims of Stalin's purges.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Gerhard Benko joke (1923-1955), resistance fighters
  • Viktor Sidjak (* 1943), four-time Olympic champion in saber fencing

References

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