Assino

city Assino Асино Federal district Siberia Oblast Tomsk Rajon Assino mayor Nikolai Alexandrovich Daniltschuk Founded 1896 City since 1952 surface 90  km² population 25,618 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 285 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 105  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38241 Post Code 63684x License Plate 70 OKATO 69 208 501 Website gorod.asino.ru Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 0 ′  N , 86 ° 9 ′  E Coordinates: 57 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 86 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Tomsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Assino ( Russian А́сино ) is a city in Tomsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 25,618 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the southeast of the West Siberian lowlands , about 90 km northeast of the Oblast capital Tomsk , on the Tschulym , a right tributary of the Ob .

The city of Assino is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

Assino has a river port on the Chulym and has been connected to Tomsk by a railroad since December 11, 1937 (regular operation from 1939). In 1973 the route was extended by 180 km to the north, to Bely Jar on the Ket .

history

Assino was founded in 1896 as the resettler village Xenjewka (later also Xenijewski ), named after the sister of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II , Grand Duchess Xenija Alexandrovna . In 1933 the name was changed to Assino, derived from Asja , a Russian diminutive of Xenija . On December 12, 1945, the place received the status of an urban-type settlement and on March 31, 1952 city rights.

In the 1950s, the budding writer Wil Lipatow lived and worked in Assino, and the writer Georgi Markow (1911–1991) in the nearby village of Novokuskowo until 1956 , later chairman of the USSR Writers' Union .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	6.160
1959	24,682
1970	29,395
1979	31,624
1989	33,471
2002	28,068
2010	25,618

Note: census data

Culture, education and sights

Since 1989 there has been a local museum in Assino, with a branch in Georgi Markov's birthplace in Novokuskowo.

economy

Assino is the regional center of the timber industry. The largest wood processing company in the city, the ASKOM combine, is currently out of order. There are efforts to reopen.

Since the 1990s, the birch bark trade has developed as an important branch of the economy, with Asino being the center of the traditional processing of birch bark that is widespread throughout the region.

Agriculture and building materials are practiced in the area.

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)
2. ↑ sagaan Birch Bark Die-Production. Retrieved July 15, 2013 . 

Web links

• City administration website (Russian)
• Assino on mojgorod.ru (Russian)