Kansk

Kansk (Russian Канск ) is a Russian city with 94 226 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia.

Geography

Kansk is located on the left bank of the Yenisei - Kan inflow, at kilometer 4344 of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and at kilometer 992 of the highway M 53 The distance to the capital city of Krasnoyarsk region is nearly 250 km to the west; the nearest town is Ilanski, 22 km east of Kansk away.

History

The city is considered one of the older Siberian cities: It was created in 1636, originally as a wooden fort (also called Ostrog ) to protect against possible attacks Kyrgyz created. Until the mid-18th century was Kansk, whose name was inspired by the river Kan, mainly as a Cossack village and was destroyed several times during attacks.

By 1740, was moved by Kansk the so-called Siberian tract, which at that time only through passable road from Moscow to Siberia. This promoted the development of trade, Kansk made ​​but also a place of exile, where also condemned to hard labor people were sent there. This condition continued until the 20th century, served as Kansk well as the location of the Gulag prison camps.

1822 Kansk received city rights and was until the early 20th century as an important trading center of the Krasnoyarsk region. From this time the old town have been preserved with former commercial buildings and merchant houses in Kansk parts. From the 1940s, as in Kansk several were made ​​up of European Russia as a result of World War II evacuated enterprises to Kansk transformed into an industrial city.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

In the vicinity of Kansk several garrisons and several military exercise areas are stationed. There are also in the city operations of mechanical engineering, the wood and the textile industry, however, many of which were closed in the 1990s. Today play in Kansk especially the wood processing and food production economically a role.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Alexandra Andrejewna Ijewlewa (* 1987), figure skater
• Sergei Leonidovich Korastylew (* 1989), biathlete