Kolpashevo
| Kolpashevo (English) Колпашево (Russian) |
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| Administrative status (as of April 2013) | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Tomsk Oblast |
| Administrative district | Kolpashevsky District |
| Administrative center of | Kolpashevsky District |
| Municipal status (as of June 2014) | |
| Municipal district | Kolpashevsky Municipal District |
| Urban settlement | Kolpashevskoye Urban Settlement |
| Administrative center of | Kolpashevsky Municipal District, Kolpashevskoye Urban Settlement |
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| Population (2010 Census) | 24,124 inhabitants |
| Time zone | KRAT (UTC+07:00) |
| Founded | beginning of the 17th century |
| Town status since | 1938 |
| Postal code(s) | 636460–636465, 636469 |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 38254 |
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Kolpashevo (Russian: Колпа́шево) is a town and the administrative center of Kolpashevsky District in Tomsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Ob River. Population: 24,124 (2010 Census);28,441 (2002 Census);31,319 (1989 Census).
It has existed since the beginning of the 17th century as a village. Town status was granted to it in 1938.
During the Great Purge Kolpashevo was the site of mass executions carried out by the NKVD, with the corpses of those executed being disposed of in a mass grave. In May 1979 meandering of the Ob river caused a mass grave containing more than 1,000 mummified corpses to become exposed. A number of cover-stories were issued by the local government, first that these bones were cattle bones, and then that these were the bodies of deserters from the Second World War. Instead most of the bodies were people from Tomsk. Yegor Ligachev, the provincial party chief, took charge of a cover-up operation to destroy the mass grave using tugs, and used the KGB to coerce local people to dispose of the corpses by sinking them.
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Kolpashevo serves as the administrative center of Kolpashevsky District, to which it is directly subordinated. As a municipal division, the town of Kolpashevo, together with three rural localities, is incorporated within Kolpashevsky Municipal District as Kolpashevskoye Urban Settlement.
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