Bakal

Federal district	Ural
Oblast	Chelyabinsk
Rajon	Satka
mayor	Alexei Medvedev
Founded	1757
City since	1951
surface	50 km²
population	20,940 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	419 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	590 m
Time zone	UTC + 5
Telephone code	(+7) 35161
Post Code	456900-456903
License Plate	74, 174
OKATO	75 249 503
Geographical location
Coordinates	54 ° 56 ' N , 58 ° 48' E Coordinates: 54 ° 56 '0 " N , 58 ° 48' 0" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Chelyabinsk Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Bakal ( Russian Бака́л ) is a Russian city in the Chelyabinsk Oblast with 20,940 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the western flank of the Southern Urals between the mountain ridges Suleya and Bolshaya Suka , about 260 km west of the Oblast capital Chelyabinsk .

Bakal belongs to the Satka Raion .

A 52-kilometer branch line connects the city with Satka and with the Berdjausch station (1890 km from Moscow) on the southern branch ( Moscow - Samara - Chelyabinsk - Omsk ) of the Trans-Siberian Railway . The M5 Moscow - Chelyabinsk highway runs a few kilometers south of Bakal .

history

Bakal was built in 1757 as a miners' settlement near the iron ore deposit on the upper reaches of the river of the same name. On October 25, 1951, the place received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	6,307
1959	29,419
1970	27,385
1979	26,820
1989	24.101
2002	22,314
2010	20,940

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In Bakal there is a history and local museum , which is mainly dedicated to the 250 year old mining tradition of the place.

economy

Bakal is one of the centers of iron ore mining in the Southern Urals with several opencast mines and shafts . The majority owner of the company is the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine . There are also companies involved in mechanical engineering (mining technology) and the building materials industry (gravel).

sons and daughters of the town

Rajissa Bohatyrjowa (* 1953), Ukrainian politician

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)

Web links

Unofficial website about the city (Russian)
Bakal on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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)


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