Kolchugino, Vladimir Oblast

Kolchugino (Russian Кольчугино ) is a town in Vladimir Oblast (Russia) with 45 776 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 75 km northwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Vladimir at the Pekscha, a left tributary of the Volga river system in Klyazma. The Pekscha is dammed northeast of the city to a small dam.

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

The city lies on the opened on this section 1899 railway ( Moscow ) Belkowo - Ivanovo ( 172 route km from Moscow). By Kolchugino also leads the R75 road which connects the highway M7 west about Vladimir Alexandrov Kolchugino and with the highway M8 north Sergiev Posad.

History

Kolchugino was created in 1871 as a workers' settlement in connection with the construction work for copper products and wire through the Moscow merchant Alexander Grigoryevich Kolchugin ( 1839-1899 ), named after the work and place.

In the 1920s, the place had the status of an urban-type settlement, and the town charter was granted on March 20, 1931.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926 rounded)

Economy

The most important companies in the city are the work Koltschugzmetmet, which manufactures non-ferrous metal products, as well as the outsourced from this Aktiengesellschaft 1997 Koltschug - Mizar AG, which on the produced based on centuries-old tradition of the work dinnerware and cutlery made ​​of precious metals and alloys, as well as the work of electrical cable. There are also companies in the textile and food industry and a furniture factory.