Petukhovo (town), Kurgan Oblast

Petuchowo (Russian Петухово ) is a city in the Kurgan Oblast (Russia) with 11,292 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located east of the Urals, in the southwest of the West Siberian Plain, about 180 km east of the Oblasthauptstadt Kurgan and only 10 km from the border with Kazakhstan. The climate is continental.

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

Petuchowo 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

Petuchowo Founded in 1892 as a railroad construction worker settlement in the establishment of four years later opened section of the Trans -Siberian Railway. The name refers to the family name Petukhov ( from the Russian word петух / petuch for tap). 1899 Petuchowo was combined with the already known since 1779 village Judino ( Юдино ). 1944 was the site of a town.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

The largest company is an engineering company in railway equipment. There are also food industry, based on cereal cultivation and livestock in the area.