Kurchatov
Курчатов
Town[1]
Kurchatov
Kurchatov
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Kurchatov is located in Russia
Kurchatov
Kurchatov
Location of Kurchatov
Kurchatov is located in Kursk Oblast
Kurchatov
Kurchatov
Kurchatov (Kursk Oblast)
Coordinates: 51°40′N 35°39′E / 51.667°N 35.650°E / 51.667; 35.650
CountryRussia
Federal subjectKursk Oblast[1]
Founded1968
Town status since1983
Elevation
160 m (520 ft)
Population
 (2010 Census)[2]
 • Total42,706
 • Estimate 
(2018)[3]
38,344 (−10.2%)
 • Subordinated totown of oblast significance of Kurchatov[1]
 • Capital ofKurchatovsky District,[1] town of oblast significance of Kurchatov[1]
 • Urban okrugKurchatov Urban Okrug[4]
 • Capital ofKurchatov Urban Okrug,[4] Kurchatovsky Municipal District[4]
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata[5])
Postal code(s)[6]
307250Edit this on Wikidata
OKTMO ID38708000001
Websitewww.kurchatov.info

Kurchatov (Russian: Курча́тов) is a town in Kursk Oblast, Russia, located on the Seym River 42 kilometers (26 mi) west of Kursk. Population: 40,318 (2021 Census);[7] 42,706 (2010 Census);[2] 45,556 (2002 Census);[8] 41,085 (1989 Census).[9]

History

Kurchatov was founded in 1968 due to the construction of the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant and granted town status in 1983.[citation needed] It was named after a Soviet physicist Igor Kurchatov.

The town of Kurchatov, along with the neighbouring Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, stood in for the town of Pripyat and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the 1991 American television movie, Chernobyl: The Final Warning. In what is now Kurchatov the Kursk 1943 Battles were being fought over twice in that year.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kurchatov serves as the administrative center of Kurchatovsky District, even though it is not a part of it.[1] As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the town of oblast significance of Kurchatov—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[1] As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Kurchatov is incorporated as Kurchatov Urban Okrug.[4]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Resolution #489
  2. ^ a b 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.
  3. ^ "Оценка численности населения Курской области на 1 января 2018 года" (PDF). Federal State Statistics Service.
  4. ^ a b c d Law #48-ZKO
  5. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  6. ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  7. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Всероссийская перепись населения 2020 года. Том 1 [2020 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1] (XLS) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  8. ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (21 May 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).
  9. ^ 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]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly.

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