Kamensk-Uralsky

Kamensk- Uralski (Russian Каменск - Уральский ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) with 174 689 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located east of the Middle Urals about 100 km southeast of Yekaterinburg Oblasthauptstadt at the mouth of the left tributary of Kamenka in the Iset river system of the Ob.

Kamensk- Uralski is the Oblast administratively subordinated directly. The city itself is clearly divided by the relatively deep valley of isset in two roughly equal Stadtrajons: Krasnogorski with 90 226 inhabitants north and Sinarski south of the river with 89 913 inhabitants, the latter named after the south -flowing and a good 20 miles downstream in the Iset which opens Sinara. Administratively, the city six rural settlements with a total of 1,480 residents are also assumed that the total population of the administrative unit " Kamensk - Uralski " is (2009) 181 619.

History

Since 1682 Situated on the site of the present townsite Issetskaja is pustosch or Schelesinskoje known that belonged to the Church of the Dormition Monastery Dalmatowo. 1700 has started on the instructions of Peter the Great with the establishment of an ironworks, which was named after the river zavod Kamensky and the following year as one of the first of its kind in the region began production. The October 15, 1701 so that is considered the founding date of the city. In the work cannons and cannonballs were primarily produced (see coat of arms ).

From 1825 to 1829 work and administrative and municipal workers were reconstructed. By the end of the 19th century, the city also became a trading center for agricultural products.

On December 6, 1885, a railway line was opened, the work place and with Bogdanovich on the route Ekaterinburg - Tyumen Association ( since 1913 part of the Trans-Siberian Railway ). The station at the village was first called Ostrovskaya, later Sinarskaja. By 1913, the route to the east, has been extended through Dalmatowo after Schadrinsk. This part of the track was included later in 1933 opened railway Yekaterinburg ( Sverdlovsk ) - Kurgan. 1940 follow the link in the direction of Chelyabinsk.

Coinciding with the development of communications in metallurgical industry was settled in the 1930s on a large scale. In 1934, the Sinara tube plant in operation, on 5 September 1939, the Ural aluminum plant. The latter was in fact the only aluminum producer in the Soviet Union during the Second World War.

In the 1930s, grew up in this context, the inhabitants of the place rapidly. On 20 April 1935, the city charter was granted under the name Kamensk. On 6 June 1940, the city received its present name to distinguish it from other places of the same name (eg Kamensk- Schachtinski ).

As occurred Kyschtym the accident in the Mayak nuclear facility in the fall of 1957, reached foothills of the radioactive cloud the city.

Population Development

Note: * Census ( rounded ) ** census

Culture, attractions and education

In Kamensk- Uralski the administration building of the iron works from the 19th century has survived. There is a geological museum, a municipal history museum and a museum of history of rural culture. The city has a theater.

The Iset River and its tributaries have now cut to form different than natural monuments designated rock formations relatively deep into the surrounding plain on the city and in the surrounding area.

In Kamensk- Uralski there are branches of the Ural State Technical University and the Institute of Economics, Management and Law of the Ural.

Economy and infrastructure

Main economic factor is the large metallurgical works Sinarski Trubny zavod ( Sinara Röhrenwerk ) of TMK, the Uralski aljuminijewy zavod ( Ural aluminum plant ) of RUSAL ( previously SUAL ) and the Kamensk- Uralsker work for non-ferrous metal processing (English KUZOCM ) the holding company Renova, the rolled products and manufactures wire.

In Kamensk- Uralski the Krasnogorsker thermal power plant ( Krasnogorskaja TEZ ) is with a capacity of 121 megawatts, which now belongs to the regional power company TGK -9.

There are also companies in the electrical engineering (Radio Factory, founded in 1949 ), textile and food industries, and the construction materials industry.

In Kamensk- Uralski intersect the alternative routes or cross-links the Trans-Siberian railway Yekaterinburg - Chelyabinsk - Kurgan and Bogdanovich. Through the city leads the R354 highway Ekaterinburg Kurgan.

The urban transport is handled by buses and trolleybuses.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Yuri Vasilyevich Alexandrov (1963-2013), Boxer
  • Alexander Alexandrovich Besputin (* 1991), Boxer
  • Lyudmila Marsowna Biktaschewa (* 1974), long-distance runner
  • Pavel Sergeyevich Kochetkov ( born 1986 ), cyclist
  • Viktor Ivanovich Raschtschupkin (* 1950), Athlete
  • Matvey Zubov (* 1991), cyclists
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