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Gubkin
Gubkin (russian: Гу́бкин, ) is a town in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Belgorod on the Oskolets River, a tributary of the Oskol River. Population: History It was founded in the 1930s in place of the village of Korobkovo and named after geologist Ivan Gubkin. In 1939, it was granted urban-type settlement status. Town status was granted to it on December 23, 1955.Charter of Gubkinsky Urban Okrug It was elevated in status to that of a town of oblast significance on March 7, 1960. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Gubkin serves as the administrative center of Gubkinsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the town of oblast significance of Gubkin—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.Law #248 As a municipal division, the territories of the town of oblast significance of Gubkin and of Gub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gubkinsky District
Gubkinsky District (russian: Гу́бкинский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the twenty-one in Belgorod Oblast, Russia.Law #248 It is located in the north of the oblast. Its administrative center is the town of Gubkin (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 33,974 ( 2002 Census); History The district was established on January 12, 1965. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Gubkinsky District is one of the twenty-one in the oblast. The town of Gubkin serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the territory of the district and the territory of the town of oblast significance of Gubkin are incorporated together as Gubkinsky Urban Okrug Gubkinsky Urban Okrug is the name of several municipal formatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Gubkin
Ivan Mikhailovich Gubkin (russian: Ива́н Миха́йлович Гу́бкин; – 21 April 1939) was a Soviet and Russian geologist and president of the 1937 International Geological Congress in Moscow. He was a petroleum geologist particularly interested the region between the Volga and the Urals. Gubkin was born to a poor farmer's family in the Belgorod area in the South of Russia. In 1895, aged 24 he moved to Saint Petersburg, but, due to the lack of money, could only enroll to a teachers institute. Only in 1903, he could enter the Petersburg Mining Institute. During his studies there, and after graduation in 1910, he worked at Maykop, Kuban, Taman and Absheron oil fields. In 1920 Gubkin was appointed to lead a government commission that was tasked to study the origin of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly. The commission proved the relation between the anomaly and the nearby iron ore deposits. In 1921, Gubkin joined the Communist Party. He was elected to the Russian Academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gubkinsky Urban Okrug, Belgorod Oblast
Gubkinsky Urban Okrug (russian: Гу́бкинский городско́й о́круг) is a municipal formation (an urban okrug) in Belgorod Oblast, Russia,Law #159 one of the three urban okrugs in the oblast. Its territory comprises the territories of two administrative divisions of Belgorod Oblast—Gubkinsky District and the town of oblast significance of Gubkin Gubkin (russian: Гу́бкин, ) is a town in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, located northeast of Belgorod on the Oskolets River, a tributary of the Oskol River. Population: History It was founded in the 1930s in place of the village of Korobkov ....Charter of Gubkinsky Urban Okrug It was established by the Law #137 of Belgorod Oblast of September 7, 2007 by merging the municipal formations of former Gubkinsky Municipal District into Gubkinsky Urban Okrug.Law #137 References Notes Sources * * * External linksOfficial website of Gubkinsky Urban Okrug{{in lang, ru Urban okrugs of Russia States and ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Administrative Divisions Of Belgorod Oblast
*Cities and towns under the oblast's jurisdiction: **Belgorod (Белгород) (administrative center) ***''city okrugs'': **** Vostochny (Восточный) **** Zapadny (Западный) ** Alexeyevka (Алексеевка) **Gubkin (Губкин) **Shebekino (Шебекино) **Stary Oskol (Старый Оскол) ** Valuyki (Валуйки) *Districts: ** Alexeyevsky (Алексеевский) ***with 20 ''municipal okrugs'' under the district's jurisdiction. ** Belgorodsky (Белгородский) ***''Urban-type settlements'' under the district's jurisdiction: **** Oktyabrsky (Октябрьский) ****Razumnoye (Разумное) **** Severny (Северный) ***with 21 ''municipal okrugs'' under the district's jurisdiction. ** Borisovsky (Борисовский) ***''Urban-type settlements'' under the district's jurisdiction: ****Borisovka (Борисовка) ***with 8 ''municipal okrugs'' under the district's jurisdiction. ** Chernyansky (Чернянский) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgorod Oblast
Belgorod Oblast (russian: Белгоро́дская о́бласть, ''Belgorodskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Belgorod. Population: History At the turn of the 17th century, a solid line of military fortifications was built in the area, stretching for almost . Ukrainian Cossacks, who moved here because of the nobility and the tax burden, were in charge of the line defenses. Even more Cossacks moved to the area during the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1657) and the internecine wars in the Cossack Hetmanate (1659–1679). Belgorod became the military and administrative center, after originating as an outpost on the southern borders of Russia. Following the Battle of Poltava, Peter I granted to soldiers of Greater Belgorod the regiment flag. From 1708 to 1727, the territory of the modern Belgorod Oblast was part of Kiev and Azov Governorates. In 1727, Belgorod Governorate was established from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cities And Towns In Belgorod Oblast
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Administrative Center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and many African countries), a (, plural form , literally 'chief place' or 'main place'), is a town or city that is important from an administrative perspective. Algeria The capital of an Algerian province is called a chef-lieu. The capital of a district, the next largest division, is also called a chef-lieu, whilst the capital of the lowest division, the municipalities, is called agglomération de chef-lieu (chef-lieu agglomeration) and is abbreviated as A.C.L. Belgium The chef-lieu in Belgium is the administrative centre of each of the ten provinces of Belgium. Three of these cities also give their name to their province ( Antwerp, Liège and Namur). France The chef-lieu of a département is known as the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subdivisions Of Russia
Russia is divided into several types and levels of subdivisions. Federal subjects Since 30 September 2022, the Russian Federation has consisted of eighty-nine federal subjects that are constituent members of the Federation.Constitution, Article 65 However, six of these federal subjects—the Republic of Crimea, the Donetsk People's Republic, the Kherson Oblast, the Lugansk People's Republic, the federal city of Sevastopol and the Zaporozhye Oblast—are internationally recognized as part of Ukraine. All federal subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation—two delegates each—in the Federation Council (upper house of the Federal Assembly). They do, however, differ in the degree of autonomy they enjoy. De jure, there are 6 types of federal subjects—24 republics, 9 krais, 48 oblasts, 3 federal cities, 1 autonomous oblast, and 4 autonomous okrugs. Autonomous okrugs are the only ones ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban-type Settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, abbreviated: uk, с.м.т., translit=s.m.t.; be, пасёлак гарадскога тыпу, translit=pasiolak haradskoha typu; pl, osiedle typu miejskiego; bg, селище от градски тип, translit=selishte ot gradski tip; ro, așezare de tip orășenesc. is an official designation for a semi-urban settlement (previously called a "town"), used in several Eastern European countries. The term was historically used in Bulgaria, Poland, and the Soviet Union, and remains in use today in 10 of the post-Soviet states. The designation was used in all 15 member republics of the Soviet Union from 1922, when it replaced a number of terms that could have been translated by the English term "town" (Russia – '' posad'', Ukraine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oskol River
The Oskil ( uk, Оскiл) or Oskol (russian: Оскол) is a south-flowing river in Russia and Ukraine. It arises roughly between Kursk and Voronezh and flows south to join the Seversky Donets which flows southeast to join the Don. It is long, with a drainage basin of .«Река Оскол» Russian State Water Registry The river has its sources on the , and flows through and s in Russia, and thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Federal Subject Significance
City of federal subject significance is an administrative division of a federal subject of Russia which is equal in status to a district but is organized around a large city; occasionally with surrounding rural territories. Description According to the 1993 Constitution of Russia, the administrative-territorial structure of the federal subjects is not identified as the responsibility of the federal government or as the joint responsibility of the federal government and the federal subjects."Энциклопедический словарь конституционного права". Статья "Административно-территориальное устройство". Сост. А. А. Избранов. — Мн.: Изд. В.М. Суров, 2001. This state of the matters is traditionally interpreted by the governments of the federal subjects as a sign that the matters of the administrative-territorial divisions are the sole responsibility of the fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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