Slavgorod

Slavgorod (Russian Славгород ) is a city in the Altai region in southern West Siberia (Russia) with 32,389 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the west of Kulunda steppes, about 400 km west of the regional capital Barnaul near the border with Kazakhstan. Directly in the city is the lake Sikatschi, about eight kilometers south of the city Jarowoje with the salt lake Bolschoye Jarowoje.

The city is Slavgorod the region administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

By Slavgorod leads the cross-connection Tatarsk - Karassuk - Trans Siberian Railway and Kulunda between the route Pavlodar - Barnaul.

History

Slavgorod was written in 1910 as part of the resettlement of farmers in the former agricultural rarely used western part of the Kulunda steppes.

1914, the site was accessed from an in Tatarsk branching off from the Trans-Siberian Railway branch line, the Kulundaeisenbahn. The importance of the place grew rapidly and he has already received city rights in 1917. The city name was derived from the Russian words slawa for fame and gorod derived for the city.

1924, the railway line was initially extended until Kulunda. Industrial importance of the place obtained in the Second World War, as a work of forging presses from Serpukhov and a chemical plant were relocated here from Krasnoperekopsk.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

In the city planned landscaped individual buildings from the founding period to the early 20th century have survived. In one of these houses the local museum of the city is housed.

The area around Slavgorod is one of the main settlement areas of the Germans from Russia; the National District Halbstadt extends a few kilometers north-east. In this context, the establishment of a Thalmann monument is to be understood at the time of the Soviet Union.

Economy

Ancillary operations of mechanical engineering ( forging presses ) and the chemical industry ( Altaichimprom ) there is construction industry and in particular food industry because Slavgorod is one of the centers of the important agricultural region of Kulunda steppes.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Olga Petrovna Bondarenko, long-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist
• Valery Kuzmich Nepomnjaschtschi, football player and coach