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A country	Russia
Subject of the federation	Kemerovo region
Municipal District	Topkinsky
Urban settlement	Topkinsky
History and Geography
Based	in 1914
City with	1933 year
Square	51.7 km²
Climate type	Temperate continental
Timezone	UTC + 7
Population
Population	↘ 27 963 [1] people ( 2017 )
Density	540.87 people / km²
Nationalities	Russians , Belarusians , Germans , Ukrainians
Denominations	Orthodoxy
Katoykonim	Topkintsy, Topkinets, Topkites
Official language
Digital identifiers
Telephone code	+7 38454
Postal codes	65230x
OKATO Code	32446000000
OKTMO Code

Night microdistrict "Sunny"

House on Lunacharsky Street

Topki is a city (since 1933 ) in Russia , the thirteenth most populous and sixteenth largest city in the Kemerovo region . It is the center of the Topkinsky municipal district . Forms Topkinsky urban settlement . It is part of the second largest in the region of the Kemerovo agglomeration .

There are 2 microdistricts in the city: Krasnaya Gorka and Solnechny, separated by Chekhov Street.

By order of the Government of the Russian Federation of July 29, 2014 No. 1398-r “On approval of the list of single-industry towns”, the municipality is included in the category “Single-industry municipal formations of the Russian Federation (single-industry towns), in which there are risks of worsening socio-economic situation” ^[2] .

Geography

The city of Topki is located in the central part of the Kemerovo region in the north-west of the Kuznetsk depression 32 kilometers south-west of the city of Kemerovo . Deviation from Moscow time is four hours.

Flora and fauna

The vast majority of the city and the region are vast mixed forests and swamps. The soil in the area is fertile and is used by farmers to grow crops. In 1984, a lynx was spotted near the Shkolnik pond. This information was confirmed by indigenous Topkintsy. Another case was in 1997 - a lynx was spotted near the village of Topki.

Other predators are present in the Topkinsky district: wolves, foxes. On the territory of the region there are large-horned wild animals: roe deer, elk, deer.

Panorama of the nursery

The type of soil in the area is black earth. The area is 51.7 km ² . The length from west to east is 6.5 km; from north to south - 4.5 km.

Topkinsky nursery

The total area of ​​all land within the city limits is 5.7 hectares. Convenient and fertile land suitable for gardening. The elevations observed in the relief are usually confined to limestones , and the lower places are associated with the development of sand-clay shales. Limestones in many places come close to the surface of the earth, and in the area of ​​the Sibtensopribor plant they come to the surface . When drilling wells in the area of ​​the industrial site of a cement plant at a depth of 40-50 meters, tertiary clays with a thickness of 5-10 meters were encountered. Four kilometers north of Topki Station is a loam deposit , a valuable raw material for building bricks . The loam thickness is from 5.4 to 10.9 meters. Total explored reserves - 1311 thousand cubic meters. 7 km northwest of the Topki station is the Solominsk limestone deposit, with reserves of 90 million tons. A cement plant is operating on the basis of this field.

The relief of the city and its environs is a gently sloping plain, gradually rising to the southeast. In some places it is cut by insignificant beams and ravines . From the eastern part of the city, the area rises to 300-310 meters above sea level. As you move west, the height decreases to 250-230 meters. In the vicinity of the city, in the northeast direction, elevations (10-12 m) or manes are extended, sometimes they are in the form of wide and long up to several kilometers with gentle slopes of elevations. Wetlands are located to the west of the city in relief depressions, from which the Boets stream originates. Southeast of the city there is a deep gully, along the bottom of which a small river Cheremshanka flows.

The climate is sharply continental, with large temperature differences in winter and summer. Winter is snowy, windy, the temperature reaches 40 degrees below zero, in the summer - up to 35 and above.

History

The historical origin of the city comes from Topki station, which was founded in October 1914 during the construction of the Kolchuginsky railway.

Under the village near the station, a site was cut and a place was allocated for the market square , where there is now a city park . In nearby villages, it is announced that land plots for estates are being sold. The new place began to settle quickly. In 1916, in the new village, there were more than 300 yards. In the same year a locomotive depot was commissioned, a train station was built. Soon, passenger traffic was discovered along the Topki-Scheglovo ( Kemerovo ) road. In the second half of January 1917, the first 23 Y-series steam locomotives from the Kolomensky Zavod were sent to the depot. Steam brigades from Yurga were transferred to Topki.

At a distance of one and three kilometers from the station there were farms - Verbovka, Yegoryevsky and Petrovsky (Cheremshanka) of the Topkinsky Village Council (center - the village of Topki) with a population of more than a thousand people. After the village council was disaggregated, the settlements Verbovka and Yegoryevsky moved to Topki station. By 1926, more than five thousand inhabitants already lived in Topki, the council worked. Decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of January 7, 1929, the settlement Topki station was assigned to the category of working villages. The decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of March 2, 1932 included the village of Petrovsky (now this is Petrovsky Street ) within the boundaries of the Topki workers' settlement.

On the eve of how the workers' settlement received the status of a city, they heard about Topki station far beyond its borders. In 1931, the depot team in the All-Union Competition was awarded the title of "The Best Depot of the USSR ", and the experience of the depot gained fame across the entire network of roads. In the 30s, more than 100 brigades from various enterprises visited the depot; they studied the experience of Topkintsy in organized schools headed by professor from Tomsk N.I. Kartashov . In the first competition of paired brigades, the diploma “The Best Engineer of the USSR ” was issued to the engineer S.V. Salikov, and another 12 Topkin were awarded first places with the presentation of awards. In May 1932, the depot team was awarded the first prize - the banner of German workers, made in the team of the railway workshops of Kirchmezer, delivered to the USSR by a delegation of German workers. In 1933, for the victory in the 3rd contest, the depot team was awarded a marble slab “For the Big Kuzbass ”, as well as the banners of the NKPS and the newspaper “ Pravda ”. On April 10, 1933, the Decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR on the transformation of the working village of Topki into a city of regional subordination was issued. At that time, 12,212 residents lived in Topki. The high status determined the further growth of the city of Topki due to the development of the main industrial enterprises at the railway junction and in the service industries, the urban population was steadily growing. So, on January 1, 1939, 22,735 people already lived in the city of Topki.

Population

As of January 1, 2019, in terms of population, the city was at 533 out of 1,115 ^[18] cities of the Russian Federation ^[19] .

National composition

According to the census on January 12, 1989:

• Russians - 92.7,
• Germans - 1.7,
• Ukrainians - 1.8,
• Belarusians - 1.3,

99.2% of city residents communicate in Russian. Other languages: German, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Chuvash.

Demography

Age structure (as of January 1, 2001):

• younger than able-bodied - 19.3,
• able-bodied - 60.7,
• older than able-bodied - 20.0.

The level of education of the population (according to the census on January 12, 1989): specific gravity in the population of the city (aged 15 years and older),%

• persons with higher professional education - 5.4,
• persons with secondary vocational education - 21.3.

Economics

The number of enterprises, associations, their branches and other separate divisions registered in the city as of 01.01.2002 (according to the Unified State Register of Enterprises and Organizations of All Forms of Ownership and Management) amounted to 400 units.

Industry

The city of Topki is a large junction station, through it goods go east towards the city of Kemerovo , south towards the city of Novokuznetsk , north towards the Trans-Siberian Railway. 12 trains pass through the Topki railway station, including passenger - 6, suburban - 6. hundreds of passenger and freight trains carrying metal , coal , building materials , consumer goods, and others pass every day.

The city-forming enterprise of the city is Topkinsky Cement LLC, with annual productivity of up to 3 million tons of cement.

Pipes of the Topkinsky cement plant

The construction of the plant began in 1953 . Cement began to be issued since 1966 , this year is the year of birth of the Topkinsky cement plant . The plant turned the settlement into a real city - it was built by the cement workers DK, DTDiM, a technical school, residential neighborhoods , schools, kindergartens and other facilities. In Topki, the effective formation of a modern infrastructure of trade and services has begun.

In the city of Topki is the production complex of the company Podorozhnik LLC (fast food chain operating in a number of Siberian regions).

The network method of organizing trade is developing. The food segment of the market is expanding due to the opening of shopping malls located within the radius of the pedestrian accessibility of the population and selling a wide range of food products targeted at middle-income consumers (stores: Maria-Ra , Magnit , Pyaterochka ). Shopping malls are developing, in which office space, entertainment centers, retail, catering and service industries are located under one roof.

Transport

Intercity flights provide services of a railway and bus station, intercity passenger transportation is carried out on 6 bus routes .

Firetruck fire truck

Social sphere

In the city there was a branch of the Kemerovo College of Construction and Maintenance of Buildings and Engineering Structures, 1 primary vocational education institution (training for agriculture, rail transport , trade and public catering, the service sector), 8 state day schools and one evening. In 2013, the building was occupied by the district administration.

The basis of the cultural potential of the city is a historical museum , 2 libraries with a book fund of 32 thousand copies, 2 institutions of cultural and leisure type. The activities of the school of art and the art school are aimed at developing the creative abilities of children and adolescents. There are institutions of additional education for children: the House of Creativity, a youth club for physical fitness, a non-state school of foreign languages.

The city has 43 club formations. There are 26 sports facilities, including a stadium, a swimming pool, 6 gyms.

From sanatorium-improving and recreation establishments the sanatorium “Crystal” dispensary operates.

The city has a tourist base “Lesnaya”, near which there is a pond (on the Topkinsky slang “city pond”), where in summer Topkins rest (there is a beach ) and conduct various sports events. In winter, the “forest” base becomes “ski”. On the territory of Topki there are St. Nicholas Church and St. Sergius of Radonezh Church, designed for 400 parishioners.

Education

• Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 1"
• Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 2"
• Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 4"
• Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 6"
• Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 8"
• Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 9"
• Topkinsky Technical College

Radio

• 102.3 Lighthouse (radio station)
• 106.7 Our Radio
• 65.93 Kuzbass FM (radio station)

Attractions

• The Russian Piet Memorial of Fame to Topkin warriors,
• Railway station (year of construction - 1914 ).

The city has one central square near the railway station - Komsomolskaya. Previously, the streets had wooden sidewalks on one side, under which ditches for water flow were arranged (these are Privokzalnaya, Vokzalnaya, Revolyutsii, Proletarskaya streets). At present, sidewalks have disappeared from the streets, many streets are concreted, covered with gravel, the city has become cleaner, the marshy soil has receded. There are 82 streets in the city.

Notes

Links

• Fireboxes in the encyclopedia "My city"
• Administration of Topkinsky urban settlement
• Administration of the Topkinsky municipal district