Karpinsk
Karpinsk (Russian Карпинск; until 1941 Bogoslowsk ( Богословск ) is a town with 29,113 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia).
Geography
Karpinsk is located in the north of Sverdlovsk Oblast on Sos'va inflow Turja, 80 km east of the Ural Mountains and 436 km north of the regional capital Yekaterinburg. Just east of Karpinsk adjacent to the city Krasnoturjinsk; another nearby town Volchansk 18 km north.
History
Karpinsk was created in 1759 as a settlement, which was part of a metallurgical plant at the same time founded in 1770 and finished. This especially processed the rich copper ore mined nearby and counted in the 18th century the leading companies in the metal industry in the Urals. After the church was built here of John the Evangelist ( in Russian Bogoslov - " the preacher " called ) was the deposit Bogoslowskoje and the resort until 1941 Bogoslowsk.
Until the beginning of the 20th century was widely Bogoslowsk leader in copper production and for this reason also one of the richest places in the Urals. A few decades later, however, the copper mining had to be stopped because the ore reserves were running low. Instead, brown coal was mined here from 1911. From 1939 to 1941 large new mines were put into operation, which made up the place. Consequently, he was awarded city status in 1941, and its present name in honor of geologist Alexander Karpinski ( 1846-1936 ), who was born here.
From 1945 to 1949 existed near Karpinsk a labor camp for Russia German and German civilians who had been deported primarily from East Prussia and Pomerania as forced laborers here. There were men and women between 15 and 65 years. The able-bodied among them had in coal mining (deep, lumpy brown coal), housing, road construction or in the quarry, partially also work as craftsmen in various establishments. Seasonal work brigades were used as forest workers in the taiga. In addition, in Karpinsk was the POW camp for 504 German prisoners of war of World War II.
Economy and Transport
The industry of the town is geared up today especially to the needs of coal mining; so Karpinsk in the production of mining equipment is operated. To a lesser extent there are lignite mining and the food and light industry.
Karpinsk has a railway connection to a branch line with connections via Krasnoturjinsk by Serov and the latter continue to Nizhny Tagil and Yekaterinburg. From 1946 to 1994 Karpinsk had its own tram network, which decreed until 1967 on an overland connection after Volchansk. Since the closure of the route run regional buses.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Shamil Sabirov (* 1959), Boxer
- Andrei Selivanov (born 1967 ), Chess Composer