Bratsk

city Bratsk Братск flag coat of arms Federal district Siberia Oblast Irkutsk Urban district Bratsk mayor Sergei Serebrennikov Founded 1630s City since 1955 surface 428  km² population 246,319 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 576 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 450  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 3953 Post Code 665700-665732 License Plate 38, 85, 138 OKATO 25 414 Website www.bratsk-city.ru Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 7 ′  N , 101 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 56 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  N , 101 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Irkutsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Bratsk ( Russian Братск ) is a city in the Irkutsk Oblast in Russia with 246,319 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

The first Europeans came in 1623 to collect taxes from the Buryats who lived there. The first Ostrog was built in 1636 at the confluence of the Oka and Angara rivers . The name of the place was derived from the ethnonym "Buryats".

The Angara-ITL forced labor camp near Bratsk was set up in 1947 as part of the Soviet gulag system with up to 44,000 people for the construction of the Baikal-Amur main line and other work. The Taischet – Bratsk railway was built from 1938 by the Western Railway ITL and from 1948 by prisoners of the Taischet ITL and See-ITL .

The energy of the Siberian rivers Ob , Yenisei , Lena and Amur was tamed in the 1950s and 1960s with numerous dams and used to build new industries. In 1952 it was decided to create a large reservoir near Bratsk and to build a 4500 MW power plant (see also " GOELRO plan"). The two were built from 1954 to 1966; During this time, the population of the place grew many times over.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3,067
1959	15,814
1970	155,362
1979	213.725
1989	255.705
2002	259.335
2010	246.319

Note: census data (1939 Bratskoye village)

politics

Administrative division

Bratsk is divided into three rajons (city districts):

• Padunski ( Падунский ; named after the former Angara rapids Padun), 56,205 inhabitants
• Pravobereschny ( Правобережный ; from "Prawy bereg", right bank of the Angara), 38,550 inhabitants
• Zentralny ( Центральный , Zentralrajon), 151,564 inhabitants

(As of October 14, 2010)

Town twinning

Bratsk lists three twin cities :

city	country	since
Nanao	Honshū, Japan	1970
Omsk	Russia	2011
Saky	/ Autonomous Republic of Crimea
Zibo	Shandong, People's Republic of China	2007

economy

Hydroelectric power station near Bratsk

Sovetskaya Street Fountain (2008)

Bratsk has heavy industry, one of the largest aluminum factories in Russia, factories for processing wood (including two Ilim Timber factories ), a chlorine factory and also a thermal power station that runs on hard coal.

In the vicinity of Bratsk there is a large regiment of the Russian armed forces as well as prison camps and prisons.

A cellulose factory was opened on June 19, 2013. It should produce 720,000 tons of softwood pulp a year. The investment volume for the factory was 31.1 billion rubles (approx. 725 million euros). 50 percent of the shares belong to the Russian stock corporation "Grupa Ilim" and 50 percent to the US company International Paper .

Climate diagram of Bratsk

Educational institutions

• Branch of the Irkutsk State University
• Branch of the Moscow Academy of Economics and Law
• Branch of the Novosibirsk Humanities Institute
• Bratsk State University

sons and daughters of the town

• Valentina Popowa (* 1972), weightlifter
• Alexander Subkow (* 1974), bobsleigh pilot
• Wiktor Kneib (* 1980), luge rider
• Nadeschda Muravjowa (* 1980), handball player
• Alexander Kasjanow (* 1983), bobsleigh pilot and luge rider
• Alexandra Rodionova (* 1984), bobsleigh pilot and luge rider
• Dmitri Tschudinow (* 1986), professional boxer
• Fyodor Tschudinow (* 1987), professional boxer and WBA world champion in super middleweight
• Vladimir Krasnow (* 1990), sprinter
• Semjon Pavlitschenko (* 1991), luge rider
• Jessica Long (* 1992), American swimmer
• Irina Dolgowa (* 1995), judoka

Impressions (summer 1981)

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  Large plaque to honor deserving people from Bratsk

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  Komsomol

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  Komsomol youth home in Bratsk

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  Air pollution from the aluminum works at the Bratsker reservoir

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line
2. ↑ The city of Bratsk (English)
3. ↑ Gulags in the Baikal area on the Memorial website
4. ↑ Главная страница. Retrieved March 22, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Новости города . Retrieved May 31, 2015.
6. ↑ Д.Медведев принял участие в церемонии запуска производства целлюлозы в Братске. In: RBC . June 19, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2013 (Russian). 

Web links

Commons : Bratsk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bratsk In: mojgorod.ru (Russian)