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City in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia

City in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia

Prokopyevsk Прокопьевск
City[1]
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Coordinates: 53°53′N 86°43′E / 53.883°N 86.717°E / 53.883; 86.717
Country Russia
Federal subject Kemerovo Oblast[1]
Founded 1918
City status since 1931[2]
Government
• Head Maksim Shkarabeynikov
Elevation 280 m (920 ft)
Population (2010 Census)[3]
• Total 210,130
• Estimate (2025)[4] 170,429 (−18.9%)
• Rank 88th in 2010
Administrative status
• Subordinated to Prokopyevsk City Under Oblast Jurisdiction[1]
• Capital of Prokopyevsky District,[1] Prokopyevsk City Under Oblast Jurisdiction[1]
Municipal status
• Urban okrug Prokopyevsky Urban Okrug[5]
• Capital of Prokopyevsky Urban Okrug,[5] Prokopyevsky Municipal District[5]
Time zone UTC+7 (MSK+4 Edit this on Wikidata[6])
Postal code[7] 653000
Dialing code +7 3846
OKTMO ID 32737000001
Website pearlkuz.ru

Prokopyevsk (Russian: Прокопьевск, IPA: [prɐˈkopʲjɪfsk]) is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Population: 210,130 (2010 census);[3] 224,597 (2002 census);[8] 273,838 (1989 Soviet census).[9]

Historical population

Year Pop. ±%
1926 11,000 —
1939 107,000 +872.7%
1959 281,958 +163.5%
1970 274,485 −2.7%
1979 266,167 −3.0%
1989 273,838 +2.9%
2002 224,597 −18.0%
2010 210,130 −6.4%
2021 177,819 −15.4%
Source: Census data

It was founded in 1918 as the settlement of Prokopyevsky (Проко́пьевский) from the existing villages of Monastyrskoye and Prokopyevskoye, and was granted town status and renamed in 1931.[2]

Administrative and municipal status

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Town center

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Prokopyevsk serves as the administrative center of Prokopyevsky District, even though it is not a part of it.[1] As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as **Prokopyevsk City Under Oblast Jurisdiction**—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[1] As a municipal division, Prokopyevsk City Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as Prokopyevsky Urban Okrug.[5]

Prokopyevsk is one of the main centers of the extraction of coking coal in the Kuznetsk Basin (Kuzbass).

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Law #215-OZ
  2. ^ a b "General Information" (in Russian). Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  3. ^ a b Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  4. ^ Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2025 года (in Russian), Moscow: Federal State Statistics Service, April 25, 2025, Wikidata Q133797648
  5. ^ a b c d Law #104-OZ
  6. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  7. ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  8. ^ Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
  9. ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly.