Belaya Kalitva
Belaya Kalitwa (Russian Белая Калитва ) is a Russian city with 43,651 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Rostov Oblast.
Geography
Belaya Kalitwa located on the eastern bank of the river Seversky Donets, at the mouth of the creek Kalitwa. The distance to the regional capital Rostov-on- Don is almost 170 km, the nearest town is 50km from the Belaya Kalitwa remote Kamensk- Schachtinski. The surrounding landscape is characterized by treeless steppe region of the Donets Basin.
History
The village was founded in 1703 as a Cossack Cossack village, which originally bore the name Ust- Belokalitwenskaja, which translates to " ( Cossack village on the ) mouth of the White Kalitwa " means. Here, the flow due to the chalky rocks on its banks was called white. Until the 20th century the site was mainly occupied by the Don Cossacks.
With the development of industry in the first half of the 20th century the place to a workers' settlement was. On March 7, 1923, the city became the administrative center of a Rajons, the first on 20 August 1931 had stock to its connection to the Rajon Schachty and was spun again on October 8, first time in 1934. At least in the 1930s, became common for the site, the current name, and on 29 April 1941, she was awarded the status of an urban-type settlement.
During the raid on the Soviet Union in World War II was occupied by German troops Belaya Kalitwa of 20 July 1942 to 19 January 1943. During this time, in the district Forschtadt ( Форштадт, of German suburb, one in 1912 at the newly built railway station south of the village beyond the Kalitwa incurred and 1925 eingemeindeten settlement ) established a forced labor camp in which the product marketed by German troops from Stalingrad civilians for the labor input was selected. Who was not an option for work in Germany, was " sent in the steppe ", formally at a hundred kilometers march towards Kalatsch on-Don, which was equivalent to a death sentence in the freezing temperatures in the winter 1942/43. For the period of occupation, the spellings Forstadt, researchers city or town Forch are found for the place ( for the actual " Forschtadt ", but also for the whole of Belaya Kalitwa ).
On August 29, 1958 Belaya Kalitwa received the city status.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Economy and Transport
The most important industrial company in Belaya Kalitwa is the aluminum metallurgy factory BKMPO. Other industries are mechanical engineering, food industry and coal mining in the nearby eastern part of the Donets Basin.
Near the city runs the highway M21, which is the main road link for Belaya Kalitwa. There is also a mainline railway station, among other things to Rostov- on-Don.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Roman Adamov ( b. 1982 ), football player