Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky (Russian Петропавловск - Камчатский to German " Peter -Paul- town in Kamchatka " ) is the capital of the Kamchatka region in Russia's Far East Federal District. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky has 179 780 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). Here are, inter alia, scientific institutions for Oceanography and Fisheries, next to the shipbuilding industry. At the site there is a monitoring station of SDCM system.
History
Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky was founded in 1740 and is an important base of the Russian Navy. On 10 July 1740, the Navigator Ivan Fomich Truskott of Vitus Bering was sent to explore the natural harbor in the Awatscha Bay for the Second Kamchatka. The protected position in the bay and the mouth of the River Awatscha were the reasons for the development of the most important city of Kamchatka.
On August 18, 1854 took a British- French flotilla, during the Crimean war, an attack on the city and began the siege of Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky. The city had been secured but in previous years by Governor Nikolai Murawjow - Amur. The Russians had only a small garrison of several hundred men and 67 cannons. You stood against numerically superior Allied landing troops and 218 naval guns. After much shelling landed about 600 soldiers south of the city, but were repulsed after heavy fighting of 230 defenders and forced to retreat. On August 24, landed more Allied 970 east of the city, but could not also prevail over 360 Russians. Then the ships left Russian waters. The losses of the Russians were about 100 men, while the loss of the British and French were about five times higher.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Sons and daughters of the town
- Grigori Dobrygin (* 1986), actor
- Varvara Selenskaja (* 1972), skier
- Igor Smirnov ( b. 1941 ), President ( 1992-2011 ) of Transnistria
Twinning
- Unalaska, United States, since 1990
- Kushiro -shi, Japan, since 1998
- Sevastopol, Ukraine, since 2009