Batschatsky
Urban-type settlement
Batschatsky
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List of large settlements in Russia |
Batschatski ( Russian Бача́тский ) is an urban-type settlement in the Kemerovo Oblast ( Russia ) with 14,402 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The settlement is located on the eastern flank of the Salair ridge in the west of the Kuznetsk Basin , about 120 km as the crow flies south of the Oblast capital Kemerovo , on a ridge between the rivers Bolshoi Batschat (Great Batschat) and Maly Batschat (Little Batschat), which unite a little later to form Batschat , a left tributary of the Inja .
Bachatsky belongs to the city district Belovo and located 20 km southwest of the center of the city Belovo.
history
The site was created as a mining camp in connection with the development of a coal deposit from 1949. The east of the settlement in northwest-southeast direction now has more than 10 kilometers extending open pit was named as the place of the nearby rivers.
In 1954, Batschatski received urban-type settlement status.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1959 | 6,148 |
1970 | 6,282 |
1979 | 8,165 |
1989 | 13,365 |
2002 | 14,990 |
2010 | 14,402 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
The building company is the Batschatski open-cast coal mine, which is operated today by the AG (OAO) Kusbassrasresugol . In 2008, a good 9.5 million tons of coal were mined, making the open-cast mine the company's second largest (after Taldinski in the eastern part of the Kussbass) and one of the largest open-cast coal mines in Russia.
The closest train stations are Ulus and Botschaty on the Novosibirsk - Novokuznetsk line and Razjesd 20 km on the Belovo - Guryevsk branch line . The regional road from Belove to Gurjewsk and Salair runs north of the settlement .
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)
- ↑ Batschatski opencast mine on the website of the operator Kuzbassrasresugol (Russian)
- ↑ Current production data on the website of Kuzbassrasresugol (Russian)