Information about the city of Kurgan
Status: a city of regional subordination, the administrative center of
the Kurgan Region.
It is situated in the west of Ishimskaya lowland, on the left bank of the
Tobol River (the Ob River basin), 1973 km east of Moscow.
Phone code: +7 (3522) ******
Economy.
Today Kurgan is a modern city, big industrial and cultural center of Zauraliye.
Main industries and enterprises:
- Machine-building and metalworking ("Kurganmashzavod (machinebuilding plant)" OJSC,
"KAVZ" OJSC, "Kurganstalmost (steel bridges)" CJSC, "Ikar" OJSC, Kurgankhimmash OJSC, "KMZ" OJSC, "Kurgan Elektromechanikal Plant" OJSC, "Rusich" OJSC)
- Electrical Power Generation
- Medical industry (AKO "Sintez")
- Food industry (meat processing, flour-milling, creamery, dairy)
- Light (garment industry, jersey, leather and footwear production, carpet production)
Agriculture: grain (spring wheat) and feeding crops, meat, milk and fat production, poultry farming.
Culture.
Theatres: legitimate drama, puppet theatre "Gulliver". Philarmonic.
Museums: House-Museum of Decembrists who were in exale in Kurgan;
Local Lore Museum; Fine Art Museum; museum of the poet S.A.Vasiliyev.
World famous All-Russian Scientific Center "Restorative Traumatology and
Orthopaedy" n.a. academician Ilizarov.
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