Shadrinsk

Schadrinsk (Russian Шадринск ) is a city in the Kurgan Oblast (Russia) with 77 756 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 northwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Kurgan, on the left bank of the river Iset. The climate is continental.

The city is the Schadrinsk Oblast administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

Schadrinsk is located on the 1933 through opened railway Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk ) - Kurgan.

History

A settlement on site of the present city called Schadrinskaja saimka ( Шадринская заимка; schadr is derived from a call or patronymic, saimka means a place used for agriculture ) has been known since 1644.

1662 the Schadrinsker Ostrog was built and later converted into a trade settlement ( Sloboda ). After the establishment of the Archangel Michael Church ( храма Архангела Михаила / chram Archangela Michaila ) in 1712, the place Schadrinsker Archangel town ( Архангельский Шадринский городок / Archangelski Schadrinski gorodok ) or Maloarchangelsk was called ( Малоархангельск ).

1781 town charter was granted under the present name and place the administrative center of a circle ( Ujesd ) in the government of Perm. In the 19th century Schadrinsk was an important cultural, craft and trade center - particularly for agricultural products - the Uralhinterlandes. In the nearby village Krestowskoje ( Крестовское, 25 km to the east ) was from 1825 Krestowo - Iwanowsker fair, the second most important of the Urals after the Irbit instead.

Towards the end of the 19th century threatened to sink the importance of the city as the city of two branches of the Trans-Siberian Railway ( on the southern Chelyabinsk - Tyumen - Kurgan and the northern over Yekaterinburg ) has been widely circumvented. In October 1913, however, a branch line of Bogdanovich about Kamensk- Uralski ( Sinarskaja station, the former Kamensk or Kamensky Zavod ) reached the place. This route was later to direct Transsib cross-connection Yekaterinburg - expanded Kurgan, which was opened in 1933.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926 rounded)

Culture, Education and sights

In there is a local historian Vladimir Pavlovich after Biryukov (1888-1971) called local museum and a museum house of the son of the town sculptor Ivan Schadr (1887-1941, actually Ivanov ).

In the city the Schadrinsker State Pedagogical Institute ( Шадринский государственный педагогический институт ) resident.

Architecturally valuable the Savior 's Transfiguration Cathedral are ( Спасо - Преображенский собор / Spaso- Preobrazhensky Sobor ), St. Nicholas Church ( Николаевская церковь / Nikolayev Tserkov, 1793-1802 ) and the Church of the Resurrection ( Воскресенская церковь / Woskressenskaja Tserkov, 1879), the building of the former junior high school, the Zemstvo administration ( 1870), the so-called trade series (1870s ) and residential buildings from the 2nd half of the 19th and early 20th century.

Economy

The most important companies in the city is the supplier to the auto industry Schadrinsker car component plant ( Шадринский автоагрегатный завод / Schadrinski awtoagregatny zavod ). There are also businesses in the construction industry (brick, precast concrete ) and light industry ( textiles, shoes, carpets, furniture). Schadrinsk is the center of an agricultural region with cereal crops, meat and dairy cattle, pigs and horses ( the Orlov Trotter ). In the vicinity there are mineral springs in the town of companies in the food industry ( milk, meat, baked goods, spirits).

Sons and daughters of the town

• Yuri Balashov ( b. 1949 ), chess player
• Leonid Khabarov ( b. 1947 ), Soviet and Russian officer
• Yevgeniya Sedova (* 1986), biathlete
• Alla Waschenina (* 1983), Women's Weightlifting