Kartaly

Kartaly (Russian Карталы ) is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russia) with 29,131 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the western edge of the West Siberian Plain, east of the Southern Urals, about 260 km southwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Chelyabinsk on Karataly - verse, a left tributary of the Tobol river system of the Ob.

Kartaly the Oblast is administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

In the city, the railway lines Chelyabinsk - Ufa and Orsk Troitsk - Magnitogorsk - Kazakh border crossing.

History

A settlement on site of the present town was founded in 1810 and was named after the river (derived from the Turkic -language words for black willow).

During the First World War began with the construction of the railway line Chelyabinsk - Orsk through the town. With the interruption of the construction as a result of the turmoil of the Russian Revolution in 1917 was Kartaly provisional endpoint of the segment. By 1930 the line was completed and Kartaly also the starting point of the branch line to the new Metallurgical Combine in situated 100 kilometers west Magnitogorsk. In 1939 the incorporation of the settlement Poltawka, and its importance as a railway junction continued to grow with the construction of the line in the direction of Kazakhstan at the end of the 1930s (1943 opened up Akmolinsk ), so the place on April 17, 1944 town charter was granted.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

In the city there are next to equipment for railway operations ( depot repair ) enterprises of the construction industry, mechanical engineering (spare parts for agricultural machinery ) and textiles (carpets ).