Dalnegorsk

city Dalnegorsk Дальнегорск coat of arms Federal district far East region Primorye Urban district Dalnegorsk Founded 1899 City since 1989 surface 31  km² population 37,519 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1210 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 220  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 42373 Post Code 692441-692446 License Plate 25, 125 OKATO 05 407 Website www.dalnegorsk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 44 ° 34 '  N , 135 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 34 '0 "  N , 135 ° 37' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Primorye region

List of cities in Russia

Dalnegorsk ( Russian Дальнего́рск ) is a city in the Primorye Region ( Russia ) with 37,519 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the southeastern part of the Sichote-Alin about 350 km northeast of the regional capital Vladivostok , on the Rudnaya River , which flows into the Sea of ​​Japan about 30 kilometers southeast of the city . The settlement of Rudnaya Pristan is located at the mouth .

The city of Dalnegorsk is the administrative seat of an urban district of the same name , which emerged from the former Rajon and the rajon-free city directly subordinate to the Oblast.

There is a fixed road connection to Vladivostok. The mines near today's city of Dalnegorsk had been connected to the coast and the ore processing companies as well as loading points in Tetjuche (from 1945 Tetjuche-Pristan, since 1972 Rudnaja Pristan ) via the narrow-gauge railway of GMK Dalpolimetall since 1908 , the main line of which was dismantled in 2006.

history

The place was built in 1899 in the valley of today Rudnaja mentioned river Tetjuche (Russian Тетюхе of Chinese 野猪河 for boar flow ) when there of from the Switzerland immigrant Julius Brynner in place of the long-known and to a lesser extent exploited ore a lead - and Zinc mine was built. Brynner's son Boris kept the mining concession until 1931, making it the longest-running , large private company in the Soviet Union . Boris Brynner's son was the American actor Yul Brynner .

The initially larger town at the mouth of the river also bore the name Tetjuche and received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1930 (according to other information only in 1941 with the formation / separation of the Tetjuchinski rajon) ; the settlement near the mine on the site of today's Dalnegorsk was initially referred to as Verkhni Rudnik ("Upper Mine"). In the early 1940s, the mine and the associated ore processing facilities were significantly expanded. The associated village, which has grown considerably in this context, also received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1945, took the name Tetjuche and became the administrative seat of the Rajons, while the original Tetjuche on the coast was renamed Tetjuche-Pristan ("Tetjuche landing stage").

In 1972, as part of a campaign against geographical names of Chinese origin, the name was changed to Dalnegorsk (Russian dalni for far in relation to the Far East of Russia ; -gorsk is a standard ending in many Russian cities, see gorod for city , but here also gora for mountain ) . At the same time the river were Tetjuche in Rudnaja (of Russian ruda for ore ) and the settlement Tetjuche-Pristan in Rudnaja pristane (Russian pristane for shipping pier ) renamed.

1986 attracted some attention Dalnegorsk by the so-called level-611 UFO Incident (English "Height 611 UFO Incident"), a supposedly on the mountain Iswestkowaja (or height 611 crashed) Town Near UFO .

It was not until 1989 that Dalnegorsk was granted city rights, while Rudnaya Pristan has only been a rural settlement since 2004.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	16,887
1970	33.506
1979	43,423
1989	49,792
2002	40,069
2010	37,519

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In Dalnegorsk there is a museum and exhibition center focusing on the nature of the area, especially minerals .

economy

Dalnegorsk is an important mining center mainly for lead, zinc and boron . The companies operating here are Bor (founded in 1965) and Dalpolimetall (predecessor founded in 1895). 58% of the Russian lead is extracted here.

According to the Blacksmith Institute , Dalnegorsk or Rudnaya Pristan is one of the 30 most polluted places in the world (“Dirty Thirty”; at times it was even included in the “Top Ten”), although this is doubted by the Russian side, including by non-governmental organizations .

There are also companies in the food industry.

swell

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. ↑ Dalnegorsk - Rudnaya Pristan route in the encyclopedia of the narrow-gauge railways of the former USSR (Russian)
3. ↑ Mining history of the area ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Dalnegorsk website (in Russian)  
4. ↑ A flying machine of an extraterrestrial civilization crashed in Primorye ( memento of the original from May 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Interview on the 20th anniversary of the event in Komsomolskaya Pravda (Russian)  
5. ^ Website of the Blacksmith Institute ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
6. ↑ Anatoly Lebedew from the NGO BROK at REGNUM.ru (English)

Web links

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

• City Council website (Russian)
• Dalnegorsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)