Editing Kemerovo (section)

==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 [[Shcheglovsk]] 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&nbsp;people.

The area's further development was boosted by the construction of a railway between [[Yurga]] and Kolchugino (now [[Leninsk-Kuznetsky (city)|Leninsk-Kuznetsky]]) with a connection between [[Topki (town), Kemerovo Oblast|Topki]] and Shcheglovo. Shcheglovo was granted town status on May&nbsp;9, 1918, which is now considered to be the date of Kemerovo's founding;<ref name="EstablishedRenamed">Charter of Kemerovo, Article&nbsp;1</ref> and was later known as '''Shcheglovsk'''. The town became the central location for the [[Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony]] which was established there in 1921. 650 workers from 20 countries settled there and set up what became the [[Kemerovo Coke Chemical Plant]]. Some of their descendants visited the modern factory in 2011.<ref name="Koks">{{cite web|title=Descendants of Dutch colonists visit OAO Koks|url=http://www.koksgroup.ru/en/press-center/release/308/|website=www.koksgroup.ru|publisher=KOKS group|access-date=16 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220182314/http://www.koksgroup.ru/en/press-center/release/308/|archive-date=December 20, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> On May&nbsp;27, 1932, Shcheglovsk was renamed Kemerovo<ref name="EstablishedRenamed" /> and became the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast in 1943. In 2018, 60 people were killed [[2018 Kemerovo fire|by a fire]] in a [[shopping mall]].<ref name="BBC1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43531684|title=Russia fire: Children killed in Kemerovo shopping centre blaze|date=25 March 2018|work=BBC News|access-date=25 March 2018|language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2022, at least 20 people were killed [[2022 Kemerovo nursing home fire|by a fire]] in a [[nursing home]].