Belovo, Kemerovo Oblast

For other places with the same name, see Belovo.
Belovo (English)
Белово (Russian)
-  Town[1]  -

Belovo Town Administration building

Location of Kemerovo Oblast in Russia
Belovo
Location of Belovo in Kemerovo Oblast
Coordinates: 54°25′N 86°18′E / 54.417°N 86.300°E / 54.417; 86.300Coordinates: 54°25′N 86°18′E / 54.417°N 86.300°E / 54.417; 86.300
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Administrative status (as of November 2012)
Country Russia
Federal subject Kemerovo Oblast[1]
Administratively subordinated to Belovo Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction[1]
Administrative center of Belovsky District,[1] Belovo Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction[1]
Municipal status (as of November 2012)
Urban okrug Belovsky Urban Okrug[2]
Administrative center of Belovsky Urban Okrug,[2] Belovsky Municipal District[2]
Statistics
Population (2010 Census) 76,764 inhabitants[3]
- Rank in 2010 212th
Time zone KRAT (UTC+07:00)[4]
Known since 1726
Town status since 1938[5]
Postal code(s)[6] 652600, 652602, 652603, 652607, 652612, 652614–652619, 652632, 652699
Dialing code(s) +7 38452
Official website
Belovo on Wikimedia Commons

Belovo (Russian: Белово) is a town in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on the Bachat River 170 kilometers (110 mi) south of Kemerovo. Population: 76,764 (2010 Census);[3] 82,425 (2002 Census);[7] 93,108 (1989 Census).[8]

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.[5] 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 framework of administrative divisions, Belovo serves as the administrative center of Belovsky District, even though it is not a part of it.[1] As an administrative division, it is, together with four urban-type settlements (Bachatsky, Gramoteino, Inskoy, and Novy Gorodok) and two rural localities, incorporated separately as Belovo Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[1] As a municipal division, Belovo Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as Belovsky Urban Okrug.[2]

Government

The town is governed by the Council of the People's Deputies, which consists of five committees, the Head of Town, Town Administration, and structural divisions.

Economy

Belovo railway station (1964-2014)
Belovo bus station (1975-2012)

Belovo is the important transport unit of Kuzbass: it is situated approximately on the half way between regional center Kemerovo and the city of Novokuznetsk and is connected with them by railway and highway of republican value «Kemerovo - Mezhdurechensk». 18% of all Kuzbass coal is got at Belovo. By the volume of extracted coal the city is a stable member of three leaders together with Novokuznetsk and Mezhdurechensk. 63% of industrial outputs of the city are due to coal branch, which is presented by 4 open-casts and 5 mines. The largest in Russia the open-cast «Bachatskii» has marked its 60th anniversary in 2009. Four thousand people work at it. The open-cast exports its production to CIS countries as well as to other foreign countries. More than 6,5 thousand people work at Belovo mines. Belovo district power station works out one third of electric power of Kuzbass. Such unique companies, as «Belovo zinc plant», JSC and «Sibelcom», JSC (the monopolist in Russia to produce switching stuff), work in Belovo area. Other firms of the city, such as «Belovo machine works», JSC, «Belovo energoremontnyi zavod», JSC; «Belovo СЕММ», JSC, etc. should be mentioned.

The economical outlooks of Belovo first of all depend on development of its coal firms and concomitant industry.

Social sphere

Central Palace of Culture

Medical care to the population of the city is rendered by 27 medical entities. There are 25 libraries in Belovo, 3 Art Schools, 8 Musical Schools, 3 Cinemas, 16 clubs and Houses of Culture, Exhibition Hall and Local Park. There also 8 Stadiums and 60 Sporting halls, Chess club, House of sports. There are also social asylum for children and adolescents, social - rehabilitation center for the minor.

Education

Orientation of the city to the operational coalfields, and as a consequent - set of settlements in huge terrain, have defined large number of objects of the social sphere (more than 240 entities). Among them - 41 secondary schools and 5 evening schools, 34 preschool entities, Palace of creativity of Children and Youth, б professional schools, medical school, pedagogical and polytechnic colleges, Belovo branch of Kemerovo State University, branches of the Kuzbass Technical University, Tomsk University of Architecture and Building, Tomsk Polytechnic University.

Notable people

Chapel of the Intercession of the Mother

The rank of the "honorary citizen" was established in 1999 by the Council of the People's Deputies. As of 2012, three people have been awarded this rank.

Other notable people include:

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Law #215-OZ
  2. 1 2 3 4 Law #104-OZ
  3. 1 2 Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ Правительство Российской Федерации. Федеральный закон №107-ФЗ от 3 июня 2011 г. «Об исчислении времени», в ред. Федерального закона №271-ФЗ от 03 июля 2016 г. «О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон "Об исчислении времени"». Вступил в силу по истечении шестидесяти дней после дня официального опубликования (6 августа 2011 г.). Опубликован: "Российская газета", №120, 6 июня 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Federal Law #107-FZ of June 31, 2011 On Calculating Time, as amended by the Federal Law #271-FZ of July 03, 2016 On Amending Federal Law "On Calculating Time". Effective as of after sixty days following the day of the official publication.).
  5. 1 2 Энциклопедия Города России. Moscow: Большая Российская Энциклопедия. 2003. p. 43. ISBN 5-7107-7399-9.
  6. ↑ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (Russian)
  7. ↑ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек" [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian). Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  8. ↑ Demoscope Weekly (1989). "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров" [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  9. ↑ Евгений Петров: досье — Велоспорт — Sports.ru

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