Zheleznogorsk (Kursk)

city Zheleznogorsk Железногорск flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kursk Urban district Zheleznogorsk mayor Viktor Solntsev Founded 1957 City since 1962 surface 114  km² population 95,049 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 834 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 220  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 47148 Post Code 30717x License Plate 46 OKATO 38 405 Website feradmin.regionnet.ru Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 20 ′  N , 35 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  N , 35 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kursk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Zheleznogorsk ( Russian Железногорск , transliteration Železnogorsk translated City of Iron ) is a town in Kursk Oblast in southwestern Russia . It is located in the northern part of the Oblast, around 90 km northwest of the regional capital Kursk and directly on the border with the Oryol Oblast . The nearest city is Dmitrovsk in Oryol Oblast, around 20 km northwest of Zheleznogorsk.

With 95,049 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010), Schelesnogorsk is the second largest city in Kursk Oblast after Kursk.

history

A new residential area in Zheleznogorsk

Zhelesnogorsk was founded in the course of the development of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly , one of the largest iron ore deposits in the world, which began in 1950 . The city's date of birth is October 2, 1957, when construction of the first workers' residential area began here. Just three years later, the population of the settlement was around 2,000, and in 1962, when the place officially received city status, it was already over 9,000.

The place name, which Schelesnogorsk received when it was founded, literally means something like "Eisenstadt", which should underline the primary importance of the city for the extraction and processing of iron .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	1,897
1970	30,953
1979	65,280
1989	85.192
2002	95,528
2010	95,049

Note: census data

Town twinning

• Spremberg in Germany ( Brandenburg ) since April 29, 2016

Economy and Transport

Iron factory in Zheleznogorsk

Zheleznogorsk is one of the leading mining towns in the Kursk region. The most important company in the city is the Schelesnogorsk Iron Mining Combine MGOK , which was founded at the same time as the city and today, as part of the metallurgy holding Metalloinvest, is one of the leading Russian companies in iron ore mining and the iron processing industry. There are also a number of smaller factories in Zheleznogorsk , including the GOTEK packaging factory , a brickworks, and the food and textile industries.

The most important traffic connections from Schelesnogorsk are the railway line from Oryol (Orel) to Lgov and the nearby European route 93 or its Russian section known as the A142 .

sons and daughters of the town

• Alexander Pogorelow (* 1980), decathlete
• Ekaterina Volkova (* 1978), athlete

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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 for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

Commons : Zheleznogorsk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city administration (Russian)
• Unofficial city portal (Russian)
• Zheleznogorsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)