Karpinsk

Karpinsk is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located at the Turya River Ob's basin, 436 kilometers north of Yekaterinburg, the place of work of the oblast. The agreement of Bogoslovsk Богосло́вск turned into founded in both 1759 or in 1769. It remained one among the largest copper manufacturing facilities inside the Urals until 1917. Coal deposits started out to be mined in 1911. In 1941, the agreement of Bogoslovsky merged with the nearby agreement of Ugolny to shape the city of Karpinsk.

From 1945 to 1949, there existed near Karpinsk a hard work camp for Russo-Germans and German civilians, who for the maximum element had been forcibly displaced from East Prussia and Pomerania for use as pressured exertions. They were ladies and men between fifteen and 65 years of age. Those capable of work have been pressured to have interaction in strip-mining of lignite, utilized in housing production and road production, labored in a stone quarry, and at times served as professional people in various workshops. Seasonally, work brigades were sent into the taiga as woodland laborers. Moreover, prisoner-of-struggle camp #504 for German POWs from World War II turned into placed in Karpinsk. Explore and experience this place more.