Kursk is one of the most importanteconomic and transport centers of Russia. It is located 530 km south of the capital. The main attraction of the city is its industrial complex, which is accompanied by a dozen scientific institutions. Today Kursk is the most important transportation hub of the entire central region of the country. The name of the city was in honor of the river Kur.
History of settlement
The first communities in the city becameformed at the beginning of the 5th century. After a few hundred years, a large settlement appeared on the banks of the River Kur. Locals mainly engaged in trade. Even then, Kursk was an important economic center of the region, which is why it attracted thousands of new settlers so much.
In 1095 the same name was founded here.specific princedom. During the reign of Izyaslav Monomakh, a powerful fortress appeared at the gates of the settlement. From the beginning of the 12th century, the city was the most important outpost of all Kievan Rus. Artisans and traders from all principalities came here. With this significantly increased the urban population. The population of Kursk at that time reached several thousand people.
In the middle of the 13th century the city was destroyed.Mongol Tatars. The remnants of the principality ruled subjects of the Golden Horde. Gradually, the ethnic group of the Slavs began to be diluted by the Mongoloid race. At the end of the 14th century, the region passed to the Lithuanian principality. However, until the 16th century, the settlement was subjected to numerous raids by Nogais and Tatars. The date of the revival of the city is 1586.
Administrative separation
Modern Kursk consists of 3 districts:Central, Sejm and Zheleznodorozhny. It is noteworthy that until the spring of 1994, they bore the names of the Leninsky, Promyshlenny and Kirovsky districts, respectively.
A large total population of Kursk is concentrated inCentral District. The number is about 214 thousand people. Back in the early 2000s, similar figures barely reached 180 thousand inhabitants. One of the main reasons for the demographic growth is the expansion of the territory. Now the area covers an area of 85 square meters. km The proportion of children and adolescents here is about 35%.
The number of Sejm districts varies bywithin 150 thousand inhabitants. Unlike the Central district, here the population gradually decreases. Compared to 2000, there are now almost 25 thousand inhabitants in the district. A quarter of the possessions are park areas.
The population of the Railway District is about 70 thousand people. This is the smallest area of the city. Only in recent years has its demographic population begun to grow.
The population of Kursk
Currently, the number of local residents isabout 435 thousand. According to this indicator, the city ranks 41 in the country. Every year, the mortality rate prevails over the birth rate by about 15%. In recent years, both indicators have increased markedly. As for life expectancy in the region, it is at 70 years.
Today, the population of Kursk is growing every day, butit was not always. At the beginning of the 19th century, the population of the city was 23.5 thousand people. A century later, the population of Kursk was already equal to 88 thousand. Nevertheless, in the early 1920s, there was a systematic decline in demographic indicators. Almost 50% of its inhabitants left the city. Most of them moved to the main megacities of the country.
In the 1960s, the population ofKursk was about 250 thousand people, and by the end of the 1990s - almost 2 times more. The decline in performance has been marked with the advent of the new millennium. By 2008, numbers have fallen by 12%. And only from the beginning of the 2010s the demographic situation of the city began to improve.
Today, mostly Russians live in Kursk, but there are also such nationalities as Ukrainians, Armenians, Belarusians, Gypsies, Tatars, Turks, Lithuanians, Georgians, etc.
Increase in numbers
In recent years, the population of the city of Kurskinexorably growing. A positive trend is observed throughout the region. Only since 2009, the population of Kursk has grown by 25 thousand inhabitants. At the end of 2012, the number reached 423 thousand people. Thus, the population growth per year is about 1%.
A large proportion of the positive trend belongs toto migrants. Mortality continues to outpace fertility rates. However, visiting people support the growing momentum. Every year more than 10 thousand new residents are registered in the city. At the same time, leaving Kursk is 45% less. Thus, the migration increase every year is about 5.5 thousand people.
By January 2017, record population figures are expected. The maximum number of residents in the entire history of the city was noted in 1998 - 441 thousand people.
Area population
At the end of the 19th century, the number of inhabitantsThe administrative region was about 2.4 million people. At the same time the population grew until the beginning of the Second World War. During the war years, the number dropped significantly (by 50%).
Over the following years, demographic andmigration figures continue to be negative. Every year the Kursk region loses up to 1% of the population. Today, its population is no more than 1.1 million people.
According to the census, most of the residents represent cities - almost 67%.
The dominant ethnic group are Russians. The traditional religion is Orthodoxy.
