Ak-Dowurak

city Ak -Dovurak Ак-Довурак flag coat of arms Federal district Siberia republic Tuva Urban district Ak-Dowurak Mayoress Aleftina Oner-oolowna Kuular Founded 1964 City since 1964 surface 49  km² population 13,468 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 275 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 850  m Time zone UTC + 7 Post Code 668050, 668051 License Plate 17th OKATO 93 403 Website ak-dovurak.su Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 10 ′  N , 90 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 90 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Tuva

List of cities in Russia

Ak-Dowurak ( Tuvinian and Russian Ак-Довурак ) is the third largest town in the autonomous Russian Republic of Tuva (southern Siberia) with 13,468 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Location and geology

View of Ak-Dowurak

The city is located on the river not far from the left bank of the Chemchik in the west of Tuva, 300 km from the capital Kyzyl . From the north it is connected to the Republic of Khakassia and its capital Abakan by a 300 km long mountain road over the Sayansky Pass .

Ak-Dowurak is home to one of the largest asbestos mines in the world, which is operated in open-cast mining and which pollutes the air in the city. The deposit is of the post-magmatic type. Ophiolites , hyperbasite and chrysotile asbestos are prevalent there. The deposit was discovered in the 1960s. The proportion of chrysotile asbestos in the rock is at least 3%. This was used to manufacture textile and technical asbestos products.

The only gulag in Tuva existed from May 1952 to April 1953 at Kyzyl-Mashalyk (Aktowrakski ITL) . 1400 prisoners were employed in the asbestos mine. The asbestos factory has been idle since the political turmoil in the early 1990s.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	9,613
1979	13,216
1989	15.191
2002	12,965
2010	13,468

Note: census data

traffic

Ak-Dowurak is located on the A162 highway , which connects it with the republic capital Kyzyl.

Web links

Commons : Ak-Dowurak  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ak-Dowurak on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Mineral Information System ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• A Month on the Alash (English)
• Tuva Gallery (English)
• Locations of the gulag in Tuva and southern Siberia
• A prisoner's memories of Ak-Dowurak

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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)
2. ^ Mineral deposits in South Siberia, Hakassia and Tuwa ( Memento from December 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )