Shebekino

Schebekino (Russian Шебекино ) is a city in Belgorod Oblast (Russia) with 44 279 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 30 km southeast of Belgorod Oblasthauptstadt the river Neschegol near its confluence with the Seversky Donets, a right tributary of the Don, only about six kilometers from the border with Ukraine.

Schebekino is the Oblast administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

Not far from the present city of the fortress Neschegolsk was built in 1654 at the former southern border of the Russian Empire during the Belgorod defensive line. The town itself was founded as Sloboda Schibekina 1713, named after the local government officials and landowners Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Schibeko that initiated the occupation of the site. Later the spelling Schebekina was encountered.

In the 19th century the village belonged to Lieutenant General Alexei Rehbinder, who came from a Westphalian originally, later Baltic German noble family. Under him, the development of the town in 1839 took to the establishment of a sugar factory an upswing.

1928 Schebekino administrative center of a Rajons, 1938, the place under the present name of the town right.

During World War II Schebekino was occupied on 14 June 1942 by the German Wehrmacht and recaptured on 9 February 1943 by troops of the Voronezh Front Red Army during the advance on Kharkov.

Around 1970 several surrounding towns were incorporated ( Ustinka, Titovka, Logowoje ) so that the population increased greatly.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926 and 1939 rounded)

Culture and sights

Around the city there are a number of archaeological sites, so the village Dmitrijewka (including grave mounds from the 8th and 9th centuries ) as well as remains of a company incorporated in the 9th century and 1240, destroyed by the Mongols in the city village Krapiwnoje.

In the village Simowenka of Rajons Schebekino the Assumption Church ( Вознесенская церковь / Wosnessenskaja Tserkov ) is from 1914, in Murom Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь / Troitskaya Tserkov ) of 1874 and in Tschurajewo the Archangel Michael Church ( Михаило - Архангельская церковь / Michailo - Archangelskaja Tserkov ) of 1873. Bulanowka is obtained in a more Holy Trinity Church.

Economy

In Schebekino there are several created instead of destroyed in World War II sugar factory chemical factories, engineering companies and companies in the construction and building materials industry and the food industry.

The Neschegol station on the railway line opened in 1896 Belgorod- Kupjansk (Ukraine ) is about five kilometers west of the city.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Sergei Ryschikow ( b. 1980 ), football player