Zavodoukovsk: population and a bit about the town

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:55

A small Siberian town is comfortably located on the banks of a small river by Russian standards with a funny name Uk. The almost virgin taiga landscapes, bewitching with their beauty, will not leave indifferent any of the nature lovers. The best thing about this small town is that it has remained almost a big cozy village.

General information

The city is located in the forest-steppe zone of Western Siberia (on the extreme western part of the Ishim Plain), on the Uk River (the right tributary of the Tobol, a little south of the confluence of the Begila River). In the north and southwest, Zavodoukovsk is surrounded by forests. The regional center of Tyumen is located 100 km to the southeast. In the northwest (28 km) is the nearest city of Yalutorovsk.

There are two stable versions of the origin of the village name. According to one of them, the word "Zavodoukovsk" can be understood as "factory on the Uka", it is associated with the river and the distillery located on it. Uk - translated from ancient Turkic as an arrow. Other researchers believe that here inIn the 18-19 centuries, a special settlement, traditional for those years, could be organized - a factory intended for the rest of convicts sent to Siberia.

History

The date of the founding of the village of Ukovskaya is considered to be 1729, then there were 8 households in it, in 1749 there were already 25 of them. In 1740-1744, the Ukovsky distillery was built, which was nationalized and closed at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. Only in 1860 was the industrial production of alcohol reopened. In 1912, a railway passed through the village.

After the revolution in 1929, Zavodoukovsk became a working settlement, a grain farm was organized, an elevator was built. April 26, 1960 received the status of a city of regional subordination. In subsequent years (in the Soviet and post-Soviet years), several industrial enterprises were built, which still provide the population of the city of Zavodoukovsk with jobs.

Population before the revolution

At the time of the founding of the village, which consisted of 8 households, the population of Zavodoukovsk was several dozen inhabitants. After 58 years, in 1787, when the village received the status of the volost village of Zavodoukovsky, there were already 180 households and 988 women and 980 men lived. In subsequent years, industry collapsed in the village, so the population grew due to the relocation of peasants from the central provinces.

Population in modern times

In the post-revolutionary years, the population of Zavodoukovsk continued to grow due to the organization of new jobs inagriculture. The first official data date back to 1939, when 6,000 inhabitants lived in the workers' settlement. During the war years, thousands of evacuees and front-line soldiers who were undergoing treatment came to the settlement. Many of them stayed in this beautiful Siberian village.

In 1959, 8700 people already lived in the village. In 1967, 15,000 people lived in the city (city status was granted in 1960). In addition to natural growth, the population of Zavodoukovsk increased due to the annexation of two villages.

In subsequent years, the number of inhabitants grew quite rapidly. In the best years of Soviet power, from 1970 to 1979, it increased from 17,461 to 21,450 people. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1989, 25,827 people lived here. The maximum population of 26,800 inhabitants was reached in 1998.

Unlike many Russian cities, in the crisis years of the 1990s, the population continued to increase due to the construction of modern industries. In subsequent years, the number of inhabitants either grew or fell slightly. In the last three years, the population of Zavodoukovsk has been growing due to natural increase. In 2017, 26,006 people lived in the city.

Economy

The volume of products produced in the region is more than 4.3 billion rubles. The largest part falls on the manufacturing industry - about 82%. the largest share in production is occupied by the production of mobile buildings, commercial timber, prefabricated reinforced concrete structures andmeat products.

The city-forming enterprise is OJSC "Zavodoukovsky Machine-Building Plant", which produces mobile multifunctional buildings (more than 50 modifications), from residential to saunas and canteens, which are in high demand among oil and gas industry enterprises. Ships up to 1300 mobile buildings annually.

Another large enterprise is Zavodoukovsky Plant of Building Materials CJSC, which produces about 30 thousand cubic meters. m of precast concrete structures. In 1994, a modern meat-packing plant Puragrouk OJSC was built in the city.

Employment Center

The main task of the state institution is to organize a set of measures to help reduce unemployment. The Center for Employment of the Population of Zavodoukovsk is located at the address: Sibirskaya st., 2A. The organization's budget is approximately 48.7 million rubles a year. The Employment Center provides information on the availability of jobs and pays unemployment benefits. The institution also provides vocational training, organization of moving to a new place of work and psychological assistance. The following vacancies are currently available at the Employment Center of Zavodoukovsk:

• the lowest paid categories of workers, including cleaners, kitchen workers, social workers, librarians with a salary of 12,894 rubles;
• highly skilled workers, including an electrician for maintenance of automation and measuring instruments of power plants of the 4th category, withsalary of 29,200 rubles;
• skilled workers, including gas welders, turners, electricians, with a salary of 20,000-24,500 rubles;
• engineering and management staff, including a human resources specialist, engineers of the second category, with a salary of 21 00-38 500 rubles.