Makushino, Kurgan Oblast

Makuschino (Russian Макушино ) is a small town in the Kurgan Oblast (Russia) with 8338 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located east of the Urals, in the southwest of the West Siberian Plain, about 130 km east of the Oblasthauptstadt Kurgan. The climate is continental.

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

Makuschino is on in October 1896 opened the West Siberian original stretch of the Trans-Siberian Railway (Chelyabinsk - Omsk ) and on the highway M51, part of the transcontinental road connecting Moscow to Vladivostok, which bypasses the town to the north.

History

The village may have been founded by evacuees from the central part of European Russia already in the late 17th century. Following the opening of since 1896 by leading here section of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the settlement at the station grew rapidly and became one of the largest villages of the circle ( Ujesd ) Kurgan. In 1944 the town was urban-type settlement status in 1963 and the municipal law.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

In addition to a farm machinery factory ( Агромашзавод / Agromaschsawod ), there are companies in the food industry.