Kataysk, Kurgan Oblast

Kataisk (Russian Катайск ) is a city in the Kurgan Oblast (Russia) with 14,003 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located east of the Urals, in the southwest of the West Siberian Plain, about 210 km northwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Kurgan, on the left bank of the river Iset. The climate is continental.

The city is the administrative center of the Kataisk Rajons same name.

Kataisk is located on the 1933 through opened railway Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk ) - Kurgan.

History

Kataisk originated in 1655 at the mouth of the river Kataika as Kataiski Ostrog ( Катайский острог ). The name is derived from the name of the Bashkir tribe Katai. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the most important trade route led to Siberia by the place. Until the beginning of the 20th century, he was a major grain trading center. In October 1913, a branch line of the Trans- Siberian Railway from Bogdanovich about Kamensk- Uralski ( Sinarskaja station, the former Kamensk or Kamensky Zavod ) to Schadrinsk was led through the village. This route was later expanded to Transsib direct cross-connection Yekaterinburg - Kurgan, which opened in 1933. 1944 was the site of a town.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

The main company is a pump mechanism ( Катайский насосный завод / Kataiski nassosny zavod ). There are also companies in the construction industry (brick, precast concrete ) and food industry, in the area agriculture (cereals, vegetables, cattle, pigs, poultry, especially geese).

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