Kemerovo

Kemerovo (Russian: Кемерово; IPA: [ˈkʲemʲɪrəvə]) is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitim and Tom Rivers, in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Basin. Population: 532,981(2010 Census); 484,754 (2002 Census); 520,263 (1989 Census).

History

Kemerovo is an amalgamation of, and successor to, several older Russian settlements. A waypoint named Verkhotomsky ostrog was established nearby in 1657 on a road from Tomsk to Kuznetsk fortress. In 1701, the settlement of Shcheglovo was founded on the left bank of the Tom; soon it became a village. By 1859, seven villages existed where modern Kemerovo is now: Shcheglovka (or Ust-Iskitimskoye), Kemerovo (named in 1734), Yevseyevo, Krasny Yar, Kur-Iskitim (Pleshki), Davydovo (Ishanovo), and Borovaya. In 1721, coal was discovered in the area. The first coal mines were established in 1907, later a chemical plant was established in 1916. By 1917, the population of Shcheglovo had grown to around 4,000 people.

Kemerovo pig

The Kemerovo (Russian: Keмepoвcкaя, Kemerovskaya) is a general-purpose pig breed from Russia.

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2140 Kemerovo

2140 Kemerovo, provisional designation 1970 PE, is a 30-kilometer sized X-type asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered by Russian female astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj on 3 August 1970. The asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.8–3.2 AU once every 5 years and 2 months (1,885 days). It has a rotation period of 9.2 hours.

Measurements of its albedo vary from 0.054 (NEOWISE misison) to 0.089 (IRAS) while detections by Akari's mid-infrared sensors as well as derived calculations from the LCDB project indicate a geometric albedo of 0.076 and 0.062, respectively.

It is named after Kemerovo Oblast, the regional center of the Russian Kemerovo district, and a significant industrial center in Siberia.

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