Красноуральск: история и архитектура индустриального города

Town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Krasnouralsk (Красноура́льск) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 24,980. In 1925, the construction of the country's largest copper smelting plant began on the basis of the Bogomolovsky deposit, in connection with the beginning of development Krasnogvardeysky deposits of copper ore along with which the construction of the eponymous workers' village began. and the construction of smelter, the settlement of Bogomolstroy was founded. In 1929, it was renamed Uralmedstroy (Уралмедьстрой). In 1931, the smelter was commissioned. In 1931, Uralmedstroy was granted work settlement status and renamed Krasnouralsk. Town status was granted in 1932. Krasnouralsk included the settlement of the metallurgical plant, and two mining villages, Krasnogvardeysky and Novo Levinsky, located in close proximity. All these villages and industrial facilities (to which the chemical plant under construction should be added) formed a single city.

The city center was a rectangular factory square formed by Lenin and Kirov streets and stretching from the northwest to the southeast. From the southeast, a three story factory building and factory walkways entered the square. Around the square, according to the not entirely correct radial beam pattern, there is a factory village built entirely in the 1930s. And almost completely (with the deduction, of course, of a barracks building) preserved to this day, down to utility sheds in the courtyards of two story buildings. The public infrastructure was located in the southern part of the city in relation to the factory area, along two streets leading to the railway station Copper Sovetskaya and Kalinin. Here there were a city council, a bank, a technical school, a bathhouse, and a department store. The preserved capital development is represented by two story as there were no three story residential buildings in Krasnouralsk, with the exception of a large engineering house in the northern part. It was assumed that the socialist city will be completed simultaneously with the plant. Socio cultural construction was planned, according to the capital construction plan for 1931

As in most cases at other construction sites, preparation plant to start absorbed all the resources and strength of the builders. Housing and communal services were abandoned. In 1931, the Krasnouralsk water supply facility was launched, stretching 11 km to the Tura River. On November 14, 1931, a large editorial appeared in 'Gigant' newspaper claiming "The socialist combine needs a socialist city". Determining the urgent tasks of construction. In 1931, it was planned to complete 60 houses, a club, a bathhouse, a public works station and a department store. In 1932, 125 new houses, a sewer, public work station No. 2, two movie clubs, a laundry room, a kitchen factory, hospital campus, several canteens, kindergartens and nurseries).

Within the framework of the administrative divisions, it is, together with ten rural localities, incorporated as the Town of Krasnouralsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the Town of Krasnouralsk is incorporated as Krasnouralsk Urban Okrug.