Kalach, Kalacheyevsky District, Voronezh Oblast

Kalatsch (Russian Калач ) is a town in Voronezh Oblast (Russia) with 20,046 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the Kalatscher heights about 300 km southeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Voronezh at the mouth of the river Podgornaya in the Tulutschejewka, a left tributary of the Don.

Kalatsch is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The city is an endpoint opened in 1896 90 km long branch line ( today only freight), which branches off at the station Talowaja of the railway Kharkiv Balashov - Pensa.

History

The town was founded in 1716 as a small fort was built here, but soon lost its military significance. The name refers to the location of the city on a high river terrace and is a Russian folk name for a narrow river loop around an island or peninsula dar.

Since the second half of the 18th century Kalatsch was an important village, whose inhabitants were occupied with the cultivation of sunflowers and pumpkins as well as the cattle trade. Towards the end of the 19th century surpassed the population of the many cities of the province of Voronezh.

During the Second World War was in Kaltsch in winter 1942/1943 the headquarters of the Southwestern Front of the Red Army.

In 1945 the city charter was granted.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1897 rounded)

Culture and sights

In the city, a number of buildings from the 18th to the early 20th century has survived. These include the Dormition Church ( Успенская церковь / Uspenskaja Tserkov ) of 1750 ( bell-tower ), the Church of the Ascension ( Вознесенская церковь / Wosnessenskaja Tserkov ) and the Church of the Resurrection ( Воскресенская церковь / Woskressenskaja Tserkov ) from the late 19th 18./frühen century as well as residential, administrative and industrial buildings.

In Rajon Kalatsch there are several burial mounds and settlement remains from the Bronze Age.

Economy

In Kalatsch there are companies in the food industry, a paint factory and building materials industry.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Alexander Samoilenko (1957-2006), industrialist
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