Detovalsk (Russ: Детовальск) is a major Alaskan city located 70 miles east of Evgenigrad, in the Evgenigrad-Krasnov Oblast. With a population of 340,000 people, it is a traditonal rail hub and blue-collar city on the Alaskan Plains that grew from a juncture town to a major regional economic presence in the 1950's and 1960's, and became suburbanized in the 1970's. It is the center of the Detovalsk metropolitan area, a region of about 600,000 people, which overlaps with Krasnov's metropolitan footprint. The city is known as the site of the Battle of Detovalsk, where Americans attempted to capture a rail juncture in the town in a blinding snowstorm in 1884.