Aban
settlement
Aban
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Aban ( Russian Абан ) is a settlement in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in Russia . It has 9187 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and is the administrative center of Abanski Rajons .
history
The place on the Aban River , a right tributary of the Ussolka , was founded in 1762. Lignite has been mined in a nearby open-cast mine since the 1980s , and there is also a wood and food industry in the village. From 1964 to 2006 the place had the status of an urban-type settlement .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 5,687 |
1959 | 6,479 |
1970 | 8,709 |
1979 | 9,075 |
1989 | 10,382 |
2002 | 9,823 |
2010 | 9,187 |
Note: census data
Personalities
- Antanas Bezaras (* 1955), Lithuanian politician
Mars crater
A Martian crater is named after Aban .
literature
- A. Gorkin and others: Geografija Rossii: Enziklopeditscheski slowar . Bolschaja Rossijskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1997, ISBN 5-85270-276-5 , p. 14. (Russian)
Web links
- Article Aban in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
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 for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)