Shchuchye, Shchuchansky District, Kurgan Oblast
Shchuch'ye (Russian Щучье ) is a city in the Kurgan Oblast (Russia) with 10,973 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 west of the Oblasthauptstadt Kurgan. The climate is continental.
The city is the administrative center of the Shchuch'ye Rajons same name.
Shchuch'ye 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 was established in 1750 Shchuch'ye on the same lake (from Russian щука / schtschuka for pike ). From 1892 on this section opened four years later Trans-Siberian Railway was past the place. It was created after a flowing river near first Tschumljak ( Чумляк until 1974) called station. In 1924, the village administrative center of a Rajons, 1945 was the site of a town.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Attractions
Nearby, on the territory of Rajons, there are about 140 lakes, including the Viktoriya - Bitter Lake ( озеро Горькое - Виктория / Ozero Gorkoje - Viktoriya ). This salt lake ( sulfate - chloride - magnesium - sodium type ) is a natural monument and is used balneologically since 1910 ( about 15 km south-east, 55 ° 7 '0 "N, 62 ° 33 ' 0" O55.11666762.55 ).
Economy
In addition to a factory for fire-extinguishers, there are companies in the food industry based on agricultural production of Rajons (grain, livestock ).
In the vicinity are a major bearing on Chemical Weapons of the Russian armed forces, in which about 5,400 tonnes of sarin, soman and VX store is located. In the resort to be built for their destruction a work.