Barabinsk

Barabinsk (Russian Барабинск ) is a town in Novosibirsk Oblast (Russia) with 30 394 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

Barabinsk is located in a desert area, the Barabasteppe (Russian Барабинская степь / Barabinskaja step) with an area of ​​117,000 km ², which extends between the rivers Irtysh and Ob in the southeast of the West Siberian lowlands, and is named after this. The city is located about 300 kilometers west of the Oblasthauptstadt Novosibirsk.

Ten kilometers north of Barabinsk the larger town of Kuibyshev situated on the river Om, which opens later in Omsk in the Irtysh.

Barabinsk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Barabinsk.

History

Barabinsk was created in 1893 as station settlement in connection with the construction of the Trans -Siberian Railway. The operation on this section was added in 1896.

As early as 1917 the town rights.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1897-1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

The city has a museum of local history.

Economy and infrastructure

Barabinsk is a major station on the Trans-Siberian Railway ( Route 3035 km from Moscow ) with a large locomotive depot.

In addition to extensive railway workshops ( locomotive and wagon repair ) there are in the city companies in the food industry and the building materials industry.

The section on this a few years ago new trassierte highway M51 from Chelyabinsk to Novosibirsk, part of the Trans-Siberian road link, Barabinsk bypasses south.

Personalities

• Anatoli Marchenko (1938-1986), writer, civil rights activist and dissident; Born in Barabinsk