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Angarsk ( Russian Анга́рск ) is a city in Russia founded in 1948 with 233,567 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). It is named after the Angara River , on whose bank it lies.
Geographical location
The city is located in the south of the Irkutsk Oblast in Siberia at the confluence of the Angara and Kitoi rivers , just under 4200 km as the crow flies from Moscow ; to the next big city Irkutsk it is about 50 km.
history
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Construction of Angarsk began in 1948, and in 1951 it was given city status.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1959 | 134,390 |
| 1970 | 203.310 |
| 1979 | 238,802 |
| 1989 | 265,835 |
| 2002 | 247.118 |
| 2010 | 233,567 |
| 2019 | 225,489 |
Note: 1959–2010: census data; 2019:
Economy and Transport
The economy in Angarsk mainly consists of the oil industry, mechanical engineering, metalworking, wood processing, chemical production, petrochemicals .
Angarsk is one of the locations of the Russian nuclear program. In addition to Novouralsk , Seversk and Selenogorsk , the Angarsk Chemical Combine also processes depleted uranium from the uranium enrichment plants in Gronau and Almelo . As a result, the city became the scene of violent clashes over Russian nuclear policy, which in July 2007 claimed a fatality among demonstrators against nuclear power.
Angarsk is connected to the Trans-Siberian Railway . Local public transport in the city is carried out by the Angarsk tram , among others .
Culture and sport
Angarsk has a watch museum and the Angarsk Technology Academy.
In 2006 construction began on a new ice hockey hall, which since its opening in 2010 under the name “ Jermak Arena ” (Russian: “Аре́на Ерма́к” ) has seated 7,000 spectators at the home games of the Jermak Angarsk ice hockey club .
Town twinning
sons and daughters of the town
- Mikhail Popkow (* 1964), police officer and serial killer
- Oleg Sukhorutschenko (* 1965), bobsledder
- Alexej Tretyakov (* 1965), painter, designer and restorer
- Mikhail Tatarinov (born 1966), ice hockey player
- Irina Belowa (* 1968), athlete
- Wadym Kulabuchow (* 1969), Ukrainian ice hockey player
- Leonid Rasvosschajew (* 1973), political activist
- Marija Konovalova (* 1974), long-distance runner
- Sergei Krivokrassow (* 1974), ice hockey player
- Alexander Skugarew (* 1975), ice hockey player
- Alexander Popov (* 1980), ice hockey player
- Mikhail Sevostyanov (born 1980), ice hockey player
- Sergei Sevostyanov (* 1980), ice hockey player
- Yevgeny Lalenkow (* 1981), speed skater
- Aljona Kartaschowa (* 1982), wrestler
- Alexei Kopeikin (* 1983), ice hockey player
- Vitaly Shulakov (* 1983), ice hockey player
- Denis Stassjuk (* 1985), ice hockey player
- Yevgeny Rybnitsky (* 1989), ice hockey player
- Anastassija Kochershova (* 1990), bobsleigh athlete
- Nikolai Stolyarenko (born 1991), ice hockey player
- Ignat Semchenko (* 1992), ice hockey player
literature
- Publik-Forum , issue 15 v. August 17, 2007, Angarsk, we do not forgive!
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line
- ↑ About the city on the city's official website; accessed on June 29, 2020 (Russian)
- ↑ http://pop-stat.mashke.org/russia-cities.htm
- ↑ Oleg Sukhoruchenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
- ↑ Кочержова Анастасия Борисовна , infosport.ru (Russian)
Web links
- City website (Russian)
- Angarsk City Council (Russian)
- Angarsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
