Spassk ( Kazakh. Spassk ) is a village in the Abay district of the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan . It is part of the Kurminsky rural district. It is located about 30 km east-southeast (ESE) from the city of Abay , the administrative center of the district, at an altitude of 581 meters above sea level [1] . The KATO code is 353263300 [2] .
| Village | |
| Spassk | |
|---|---|
| kaz. Spassk | |
| A country |  Kazakhstan |
| Region | Karaganda region |
| Rural area | Abay |
| Rural district | Kurminsky |
| History and Geography | |
| Former names | Spassky Plant |
| Center height | 581 m |
| Timezone | UTC + 6 |
| Population | |
| Population | ▼ 73 people ( 2009 ) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Car code | 09 (formerly K, M) |
| CATO Code | 353263300 |
Population
In 1999, the population of the village was 145 people (76 men and 69 women) [3] . According to the 2009 census , 73 people (38 men and 35 women) lived in the village [3] .
History
In the 50s. XIX century in Spassk was built a smelter [4] . Its history is closely connected with the Karaganda basin , whose coal provided the needs of the plant. In 1907, the coal mines of the basin were taken over by the Spassky Copper Ore Joint-Stock Company, founded in London by Jim Herbert.
May 11, 1918 V.I. Lenin signed a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR on the nationalization of the Spassky smelter and other enterprises. In the late 1910s. the factory was closed.
Karlag’s department was located in Spassk, and during World War II, the NKVD of the USSR organized special camp No. 99, which contained over 70 thousand foreign prisoners of war of approximately 40 nationalities [5] [6] . The prisoners of the Spassky branch of Karlag were Rochus Mish and Ahiko Tetsuro [6] . A memorial to the victims of Karlag has been unveiled [7] . Spassk is the training center of the reserve of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan [8] [9] .
Notes
- ↑ Spassk . GeoNames. Date of treatment July 1, 2013. Archived July 4, 2013.
- ↑ CATO base (unavailable link) . Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on statistics. Date of treatment July 1, 2013. Archived July 3, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 Results of the 2009 National Census of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Unavailable link) . Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on statistics. Date of treatment June 10, 2019. Archived February 27, 2013.
- ↑ Welcome to the official website of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Karaganda
- ↑ Memorial to the prisoners of Karlag: pos. Spassk, Karaganda region, cemetery: KAZAKHSTAN: Monuments and memorials to victims of political ...
- ↑ 1 2 Caravan Newspaper / The Last Witness and the Last Samurai
- ↑ A MEMORIAL IS OPENED TO THE VICTIMS OF REPRESSIONS IN THE SPASSIAN FORMER OF CARLAG (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment July 1, 2013. Archived October 15, 2007.
- ↑ Kazakhstan Army needs a new professional reserve - Minister of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan
- ↑ As part of a press tour to the Spassky military training ground, journalists fired from military weapons