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Belovsky District, Kemerovo Oblast
Belovsky District (russian: Бело́вский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the nineteen in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.Law #215-OZ As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Belovsky Municipal District.Law #104-OZ It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a '' selo'') of Vishnevka. Population: 33,382 ( 2002 Census); Geography Belovsky District is at the center of the Kuznetsk Basin (the "Kuzbass" coal region of the Tom River basin), and is at the center of Kemerovo Oblast. The district's borders effectively surround the large town of Belovo, Kemerovo Oblast, and is just south of the town of Leninsk-Kuznetsky (city). The terrain is mostly flat in the center, on the plain of the Inya River as it flows north and west; the Tom River runs north to south along the east border. Rolling hills rise in the east towards the Kuznetsk Alatau, and towards the Salair Ridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom River
The Tom ( rus, Томь, p=tomʲ, cjs, Том) is a river in Russia, a right tributary of the Ob in Central Siberia. Its watershed lies within the Republic of Khakassia, Kemerovo Oblast, and Tomsk Oblast.Томь (река, приток Оби) It is long, and has a drainage basin of . The Tom flows from the (a northern continuation of the ) nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guryevsky District
Guryevsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia. *Guryevsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, an administrative district of Kaliningrad Oblast *Guryevsky District, Kemerovo Oblast, an administrative and municipal district of Kemerovo Oblast Kemerovo Oblast — Kuzbass (russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть — Кузба́сс, translit=Kemerovskaya oblast — Kuzbass, ), also known simply as Kemerovo Oblast (russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть, label=non ... See also * Guryevsky (other) References {{Set index article, Russian districts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prokopyevsky District
Prokopyevsky District (russian: Проко́пьевский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the nineteen in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.Law #215-OZ As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Prokopyevsky Municipal District.Law #104-OZ It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the city of Prokopyevsk (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 33,705 ( 2002 Census); Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Prokopyevsky District is one of the nineteen in the oblast. The city of Prokopyevsk serves as its administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ..., despite being incorporated separately as a city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novokuznetsky District
Novokuznetsky District (russian: Новокузне́цкий райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Kemerovo Oblast, nineteen in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.Law #215-OZ As a subdivisions of Russia#Municipal divisions, municipal division, it is incorporated as Novokuznetsky Municipal District.Law #104-OZ It is located in the center of the oblast and spans it from border to border in the southwest-northeast direction. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Novokuznetsk (which is not administratively a part of the district). As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 50,681. History On March 19, 2007 a Ulyanovskaya Mine disaster, massive methane explosion ripped through the Ulyanovskaya mine in Novokuznetsky District killing over a hundred people. The mine was the largest coal producing center in Kemerovo Oblas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krapivinsky District
Krapivinsky District (russian: Крапи́винский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the nineteen in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.Law #215-OZ As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Krapivinsky Municipal District.Law #104-OZ It is located in the center of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...) of Krapivinsky. Population: 27,658 ( 2002 Census); The population of the administrative center accounts for 30.4% of the district's total population. References Notes Sources * * {{coord, 55, 00, 21, N, 86, 48, 24, E, type:adm3rd_source:kolossus-itwiki, display=title Districts of Kemerovo Oblast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novokuznetsk
Novokuznetsk ( rus, Новокузнецк, p=nəvəkʊzˈnʲɛt͡sk; literally: "new smith's", cjs, Аба-тура, ''Aba-tura'') is a city in Kemerovo Oblast (Kuzbass) in south-western Siberia, Russia. It is the second largest city in the oblast, after Kemerovo. Population: It was previously known as ''Kuznetsk'' until 1931, and as ''Stalinsk'' until 1961. History Founded in 1618 by men from Tomsk as a Cossack '' ostrog'' (fort) on the Tom River, it was initially called Kuznetsky ostrog (). It became the seat of Kuznetsky Uyezd in 1622. Kuznetsk () was granted town status in 1689. It was here that Fyodor Dostoevsky married his first wife, Maria Isayeva (1857). Joseph Stalin's rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union transformed the sleepy town into a major coal mining and industrial center in the 1930s. It merged with Sad Gorod in 1931. In 1931–1932, the city was known as Novokuznetsk and between 1932 and 1961 as Stalinsk (), after Stalin. Climate Novokuznetsk has a fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salair Ridge
Salair Ridge (pronounced ''sah-lah-EER''; russian: Салаирский кряж) is an eroded plateau-type highland in the Southwestern Siberia, Russia, particularly in Altai Krai, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk Oblast. It is a natural continuation of Altai Mountains and separates the Kuznetsk Depression from the Ob River Plain to the southwest. Its main ridge is nearly parallel to that of Kuznetsk Alatau. The ridge is some 300 kilometres in length and 15-40 kilometres wide. The mountains are rich in complex ores. The highest peak is Kivda (russian: Кивда), at 621 meters. Major rivers include the Berd' (russian: Бердь, see the city of Berdsk), Suenga River (russian: Суенга) and Chumysh River. See also *Geography of South-Central Siberia *South Siberian Mountains The South Siberian Mountains ( rus, Южно-Сибирские горы) are one of the largest mountain systems of the Russian Federation. The total area of the system of mountain ranges is more than 1.5 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuznetsk Alatau
Kuznetsk Alatau (russian: Кузнецкий Алатау) is a mountain range in southern Siberia, Russia. The range rises in the Altai-Sayan region of the South Siberian Mountains, northwest of Mongolia. The Siberian Railway skirts the northern limit of the range. Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed in the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range in 1994. Geography The Kuznetsk Alatau consists of several ridges of medium height stretching for about between the Kuznetsk Depression and the Minusinsk Depression. The highest peak is high Staraya Krepost, another important peak is high Verkhny Zub. The Abakan Range is at the southern limit and to the north the range descends gradually to the West Siberian Plain. To the east lies the basin of the Yenisei. The mountains have generally a smooth outline with rather steep western slopes and gentler eastern ones. / '' |
Inya River
The Inya (russian: Иня́, ) is a river in Kemerovo and Novosibirsk Oblasts of Russia. It is a right tributary of the Ob. It is long, with a drainage basin of . By the Inya lie the towns of Leninsk-Kuznetsky and Toguchin. The river flows through a rather densely populated area, and is crossed by several railway lines. Course The Inya has its sources in a ridge in the central part of the |
Leninsk-Kuznetsky (city)
Leninsk-Kuznetsky (russian: Ле́нинск-Кузне́цкий, ), known as Kolchugino (, ) until 1925, is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Inya River ( Ob's tributary). Population: 128,000 (1972); 83,000 (1939); 20,000 (1926). Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Leninsk-Kuznetsky serves as the administrative center of Leninsk-Kuznetsky District, even though it is not a part of it.Law #215-OZ As an administrative division, it is, together with two rural localities, incorporated separately as Leninsk-Kuznetsky City Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, Leninsk-Kuznetsky City Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as Leninsk-Kuznetsky Urban Okrug.Law #104-OZ Economy Leninsk-Kuznetsky is one of the main coal mining centers of the Kuznetsk Basin. It is entirely turned towards the extraction of coal. Many m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belovo, Kemerovo Oblast
Belovo (russian: Белово) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on the Bachat River south of Kemerovo. Population: History The village of Belovo for the first time is mentioned in 1726. It was named after a fugitive peasant Fyodor Belov, who built a small taiga house, a so-called ''zaimka'', on the bank of the Bachat River. The year of 1855 was a new page in the history of settlement: the mining of mineral resources on the found coal field began. In 1938, Belovo was granted town status. The town developed as a conglomeration of departmental settlements, whose population was directly or indirectly involved with the coal mines, a power station, and the railway. Administrative and municipal status Within the subdivisions of Russia#Administrative divisions, framework of administrative divisions, Belovo serves as the administrative center of Belovsky District, Kemerovo Oblast, Belovsky District, even though it is not a part of it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
