🇷🇺 Kolchugino (Кольчу́гино) is a town and the administrative centre of Kolchuginsky District in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Peksha River (Klyazma's tributary) some 74 km (46 mi) north-west of Vladimir, the administrative centre of the oblast.
1History Kolchugino was founded in 1871 as a settlement next to copper-annealing and wire-producing plants belonging to a Muscovite merchant A. G. Kolchugin (hence, the name Kolchugino). It was granted town status in 1931.
1Geography: Administrative status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kolchugino serves as the administrative centre of Kolchuginsky District, to which it is directly subordinated. As a municipal division, the town of Kolchugino, together with nine rural localities in Kolchuginsky District, is incorporated within Kolchuginsky Municipal District as Kolchugino Urban Settlement.
1Economy The town is well known for its tableware plant, founded by Alexander Kolchugin. Most of Russian tea glass-holders were produced in Kolchugino.
ZAO Kolchugtsvetmet, also located in Kolchugino and founded in 1871, is the largest manufacturer of non-ferrous mill products in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1Kolchugino has a population of over 39,410 people. Kolchugino also forms the centre of the wider Kolchuginsky District which has a population of over 52,807 people.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Kolchugino has links with:
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🇷🇺 Velikiye Luki 56.333
🇷🇺 Kamensk-Uralskiy 56.4
🇷🇺 Sergiyev Posad 56.316
🇩🇰 Central Denmark 56.261
🇷🇺 Zheleznogorsk 56.251
🇷🇺 Dzerzhinsk 56.238
🏴 Glenrothes 56.198
🇷🇺 Solnechnogorsk 56.183
🇹🇿 Dar es Salaam 39.283
🇲🇿 Nampula City 39.264
🇹🇿 Mchafukoge 39.25
🇹🇿 Zanzibar City 39.224
Locations Near: Kolchugino 39.3667,56.3167
🇷🇺 Petushki 39.467,55.933 d: 43.1
🇷🇺 Orekhovo-Zuyevo 38.971,55.802 d: 62.2
🇷🇺 Rostov 39.417,57.183 d: 96.4
🇷🇺 Noginsk 38.447,55.861 d: 76.3
🇷🇺 Elektrostal 38.438,55.809 d: 80.7
🇷🇺 Vladimir 40.41,56.13 d: 67.7
🇷🇺 Voskresensk 38.7,55.317 d: 118.7
🇷🇺 Sergiyev Posad 38.137,56.316 d: 75.8
🇷🇺 Kolomna 38.769,55.094 d: 141
🇷🇺 Ramenskoye 38.222,55.572 d: 109.3
Antipodal to: Kolchugino -140.633,-56.317
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 15638.2
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 15183.3
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 14688.5
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 14599.3
🇨🇱 Port Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 15025.8
🇨🇱 Puerto Montt -72.933,-41.467 d: 15025.8
🇨🇱 Osorno -73.133,-40.567 d: 14968.8
🇨🇱 Valdivia -73.233,-39.8 d: 14915.5
🇨🇱 Coyhaique -72.067,-45.567 d: 15277.9
🇨🇱 Punta Arenas -70.91,-53.162 d: 15719.7