Kemerovo

Kemerovo is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Kemerovo is an amalgamation of, and successor to, several older Russian settlements. A waypoint named Verkhotomsky ostrog become mounted close by in 1657 on a road from Tomsk to Kuznetsk fortress. In 1701, the settlement of Shcheglovsk turned into founded on the left bank of the Tom; quickly it became a village.

By 1859, seven villages existed where present day Kemerovo is now: Shcheglovka, Kemerovo, Yevseyevo, Krasny Yar, Kur-Iskitim, Davydovo, and Borovaya. In 1721, coal become discovered in the location. The first coal mines have been hooked up in 1907, later a chemical plant changed into hooked up in 1916. By 1917, the population of Shcheglovo had grown to round 4,000 human beings. The place's similarly development became boosted by way of the development of a railway between Yurga and Kolchugino with a connection among Topki and Shcheglovo.

Shcheglovo became granted town fame on May 9, 1918, that's now taken into consideration to be the date of Kemerovo's founding; and become later called Shcheglovsk. The town became the important place for the Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony which become set up there in 1921. 650 workers from 20 different countries settled there and set up what have become the Kemerovo Coke Chemical Plant.