Chalmer-Ju
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Chalmer-Ju
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Chalmer-Ju ( Russian Хальмер-Ю́ ) is a former urban-type settlement in the Komi Republic ( Russia ). When the town was abandoned in the 1990s, Chalmer-Ju became a ghost town .
geography
The settlement is located in the western foreland of the Polarural in the extreme northeast of the Komi Republic. Chalmer-Ju is about 60 kilometers to the northeast from the Vorkuta mining center, and almost 1000 kilometers (as the crow flies) from the republic capital Syktyvkar . The settlement lies in the area of the upper reaches of a river of the same name, which belongs to the river system of the Kara , the tributary of the Kara Sea that gives it its name .
Administratively, the place that last had the status of an urban-type settlement was subordinated to the administration of the city of Vorkuta, to which the territory still belongs today. The village consisted of two parts about 2.5 kilometers apart, the center and residential area in the west and the settlement further east around the coal shafts.
history
The history of the place began with the exploration of the coal deposits around Vorkuta during the Great Patriotic War in the early 1940s. Economically usable coal deposits in the Chalmer-Ju area were discovered in the summer of 1942. In 1943 a settlement was built that had 250 inhabitants by autumn of that year. Was named the village by the name of the river, in the Nenets means "river in the valley of the Dead" or simply "dead river".
However, the construction of a coal mine did not begin until 1951. It started production in 1957 and a second in 1958. The Pechora railway Konoscha - Kotlas - Vorkuta was extended to Chalmer-Ju in the years up to 1954, where it reached its northernmost point. On October 4, 1954, Chalmer-Ju received urban-type settlement status. Around 1960 the place reached its highest population.
Under the conditions of the economic crisis and the change in ownership after the collapse of the Soviet Union , the production of the unprofitable coal mine was significantly reduced after 1990. On December 25, 1993, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted its Order No. 1351 "On the liquidation of the Chalmer-Ju mine of the Workutaugol production association and measures for social protection of the population of the Chalmer-Ju settlement of the Komi Republic". The measures should be completed by autumn 1995, the residents should receive replacement housing in Vorkuta and compensation or financial aid. Since many residents did not believe the promises of the state power, they opposed the resettlement, which was only implemented in 1996, sometimes with the use of force by OMON forces. The Vorkuta - Chalmer-Ju railway line was closed.
Since then, the former settlement and the surrounding area have been used by the Russian armed forces as a training area with the (unofficial) designation Pemboi ( Пембой , also Pem-Boi , after a hill a good 15 kilometers to the north, 421 meters high). It hit the headlines in August 2005 after Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in strategic long-distance pilot exercises there. He was on board a Tupolev Tu-160 supersonic bomber , which fired three cruise missiles at the former cultural center of the Chalmer-Ju settlement.
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1959 | 7122 |
| 1970 | 4509 |
| 1979 | 4328 |
| 1989 | 4389 |
Note : census data
