Fokino is a city (since 1964) in the Bryansk region. It forms an
administrative unit within the Dyatkovo district and the city district
of the same name.
Named in honor of I. I. Fokin, a participant in
the revolutionary events in Bryansk.
Population - 12,538 people.
(2021).
By Order of the Government of the Russian Federation
dated July 29, 2014 No. 1398-r “On approval of the list of
single-industry towns,” the city was included in the category
“Single-industry municipalities of the Russian Federation
(single-industry towns) in which there are risks of deterioration of the
socio-economic situation.”
In the central part of the city, many houses were built in the
post-war years by captured Germans. In general, the architectural
appearance of the city is determined by its industrial enterprises, the
workshops and pipes of which are much higher than civil buildings. The
only church is located on the outskirts of the city in a low adapted
building.
The Sibenets residential district is located 5 km from
the main part of the city. It is a residential area of the city of
Fokino. It was built up in the 1970s and 1990s with modern multi-storey
buildings with appropriate infrastructure. Since 1999, it has also had
its own Orthodox church.
It is located on the Pridesninsk lowland, on the Bolva River, a
tributary of the Desna, 16 kilometers north of Bryansk, on the border of
Dyatkovsky and Bryansk districts.
The Bryansk—Vyazma railway
passes through the city.
The nearest suburb is the village of
Berezino.
The history of the city goes back to 1899, when the construction of a
cement plant began near the village of Borovka, called "Maltsovsky
Portland cement" by the name of the entrepreneur who founded it, Sergei
Maltsov. In 1929, the settlement at the plant received the status of a
working settlement with the name Cement Plant, later shortened to
"Cement". In 1964, the village was transformed into the town of Fokino
in honor of the revolutionary Ignat Fokin. The former village of Borovka
also entered the city limits.
Since 1969, the settlement of
Sibenets has been included in the city, where the majority of the
population currently lives.
Until 2002, it was subordinated to
the Dyatkovsky district.
Since 2002, Fokino has had the status of
an independent municipality — an urban district within the Bryansk
region.
The city-forming enterprise is the Maltsovsky Portland Cement Cement
plant.
There are also other businesses in the city: JSC
Bryanskshifer, ceramic drainage pipe plant, reinforced concrete products
plant, asbestos cement products plant.
In 2009, for manufacturing
enterprises, the volume of shipped goods of their own production,
completed works and services on their own amounted to 4.24 billion
rubles.