Bogdanovich (town)

Bogdanovich (Russian Богданович ) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) with 30 670 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the west of the West Siberian Plain, about 100 km east of Oblasthauptstadt Yekaterinburg at the Kunara, a right tributary of the Ob river system in Pyshma.

Bogdanovich is the center of a district of the same city (until 2006 Rajon ), the ( управленческий Южный округ / Youzhny uprawlentscheski okrug ) within the oblast to the Southern administrative district belongs.

Bogdanovich is on the 1885 opened railway Yekaterinburg - Tyumen (the one with the continuation of Tyumen to Omsk in 1913 to a section of the northern route of the Trans-Siberian Railway ), to which also in 1885 opened branch line to Kamensk- Uralski and at the 1918 opened route Alapayevsk ( - Serov ).

History

Bogdanovich was built 1883-1885 as a station settlement in the construction of the railway Yekaterinburg - Tyumen and was named after the Russian General Yevgeny Bogdanovich, an advocate of the establishment of the Trans-Siberian Railway, named. 1947, the site of a town.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

The city center is preserved as an architectural ensemble of the early years.

Since 1977 there is a local history museum and since 1994 Stepan - Schtschipatschow Literary Museum ( the poet was born near ).

Economy

In the city there are works for refractory materials, railway sleepers, porcelain, feed and food industries.