Kolchugino is a relatively young industrial city in the north-western part of the Vladimir region. It originated from the factory village founded by A.G. Kolchugin, a merchant, together with a copper processing plant near the village of Vasilyevskoye on the Belenkaya river, which flows into the Peksha river.
The city is located 83 km from Vladimir and 144 km from Moscow.
From the history...
A copper and brass establishment converted from a paper mill purchased by A.G. Kolchugin's owner Solovyov began producing products on 6 May 1871. The plant developed rapidly, and the workers' settlement grew with it; after 1887, brick and log one- and two-storey houses for specialists, and large dormitories for workers were built here.
By 1915, the Kolchugin Association plant was a large plant in Russia, employing over 10 thousand people. The particularly rapid growth of the workers' settlement, along with the expansion of the plant, occurred in the 30s and 40s. By that time, more than 12,000 people worked at the plant, and the population in the village exceeded 15,000 people.
At the joint request of the administration of the plant and the village, on 20 March 1931, the workers' village received the status of a city, and in the spring of 1941, of a region-level city.
In the post-war 1950s–1960s, active development of the vacant areas in the Vasilievsky village began. At this time, the village of Tonkovo was merged into the city.
In 1977, the construction of a dam on the Peksha River was completed and the Kolchugino reservoir was filled.
In the 1990s, construction of brick multi-storey buildings began on the former airfield.
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