Rubtsovsk (russian: Рубцо́вск, ) is a

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Altai Krai Altai Krai (russian: Алта́йский край, r=Altaysky kray, p=ɐlˈtajskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai). It borders clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan (East Kazakhstan Region and Pavlodar ...

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, located on the

Aley River The Aley (russian: Алей) is a river in Altai Krai, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Ob. It is long, and has a drainage basin of . Bigger towns along the river are Rubtsovsk and Aleysk. Course The river flows along the Ob Plateau in it ...

( Ob's

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) southwest of

Barnaul Barnaul ( rus, Барнау́л, p=bərnɐˈul) is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and administrative centre of Altai Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of the Barnaulka and Ob Rivers in the West Siberian Plain. As ...

. Population: 167,000 (1975); 111,000 (1959); 38,000 (1939).

History

It was founded in 1892. A number of

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incidents took place in the city in 1945. During the

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, the city was the home city of several soldiers associated with the

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and also a major destination for Ukrainian war loot.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Rubtsovsk serves as the

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Rubtsovsky District Rubtsovsky District (russian: Рубцо́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #28-ZS and municipalLaw #35-ZS district (raion), one of the fifty-nine in Altai Krai, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the krai. The area of the di ...

, even though it is not a part of it.Law #28-ZS As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the city of krai significance of Rubtsovsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the

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.Law #28-ZS As a municipal division, the city of krai significance of Rubtsovsk is incorporated as Rubtsovsk Urban Okrug.Law #83-ZS

Transportation

The

Rubtsovsk Airport Rubtsovsk Airport () is an airport in Russia located 6 km north of Rubtsovsk Rubtsovsk (russian: Рубцо́вск, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the Aley River (Ob River, Ob's tr ...

is a derelict airfield which is used most commonly by local youth for drag racing.

Climate

Notable people

Raisa Gorbachyova Raisa Maximovna Gorbacheva (russian: link=no, Раи́са Макси́мовна Горбачёва Romanized ''Raisa Maksimovna Gorbachyova'', , Титаренко; 5 January 1932 – 20 September 1999) was a Soviet-Russian activist and phil ...

, activist and wife of former Soviet leader

Mikhail Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served a ...

Yevgeni Kryukov Yevgeni Vladimirovich Kryukov (russian: Евгений Владимирович Крюков; born 3 August 1963) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player. Club career He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second Leagu ...

, association football player *

Boris Eifman Boris Eifman (Борис Яковлевич Эйфман) (born 22 July 1946, in Rubtsovsk) is a Russian choreographer and artistic director. He has done more than fifty ballet productions. Eifman was born in Siberia, where his engineer father ha ...

, ballet choreographer *

Vladimir Ryzhkov Vladimir Aleksandrovich Ryzhkov (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Рыжко́в; born 3 September 1966 in Rubtsovsk) is a Russian historian and liberal politician, a former co-chair of People's Freedom Party (2006 � ...

, politician *

Aleksei Tishchenko Aleksei Viktorovich Tishchenko (russian: Алексей Викторович Тищенко; born 29 May 1984) is a former Russian Olympic boxer best known to dominate the lower weight classes in the last years winning numerous tit ...

, boxer *

Yekaterina Lobaznyuk Ekaterina Vladimirovna Lobaznyuk (russian: Екатерина Владимировна Лобазнюк; born June 10, 1983 in Fergana, Uzbek SSR, USSR) is a former Olympic gymnast who competed for Russia in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Au ...

, gymnast *

Vladimir Galouzine Vladimir Vasilyevich Galouzine (russian: Владимир Васильевич Галузин, ''Vladimir Galuzin'', ) is a Russian tenor. He has performed in such Russian operas as '' The Queen of Spades'', ''Boris Godunov'' and ''Khovanshchina' ...

, tenor

Cultural references

Novelist

Esther Hautzig Esther R. Hautzig ( he, אסתר האוציג, born October 18, 1930 – died November 1, 2009 in America) was a Polish-born American writer, best known for her award-winning book ''The Endless Steppe'' (1968). Esther Hautzig (previously known a ...

recounts her experiences in Rubtsovsk during World War II in ''

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* * * {{Authority control Cities and towns in Altai Krai Populated places established in 1892 1892 establishments in the Russian Empire