Krasny Kut, Saratov Oblast

Krasny Kut (Russian Красный Кут ) is a town in Saratov Oblast (Russia) with 14,416 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 120 km southeast of Saratov Oblasthauptstadt at Yaroslav, a left tributary of the Volga.

Krasny Kut is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The town lies on the railway line Saratov -Astrakhan, branches off from the branch line through here a Nowousensk by Alexandrov Gai.

History

Krasny Kut was founded in 1837 by evacuees from the government of Kharkov. The place name is in the southern Russian dialect for beautiful corner. In 1966, the place, the city law.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture, Education and sights

In the city the Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь / Troitskaya Tserkov ) obtained from the 19th century.

On August 7, 1961 landed in Krasny Kut Rajon cosmonaut German Titov, after he had performed with the spaceship Vostok 2 the second orbital space flight in history. At this point today stands an obelisk.

In Krasny Kut is a civilian flying school to which a training airfield belongs.

Economy

Krasny Kut is the center of an agricultural area; it outweigh companies in the food industry, but there are railway workshops.