Gorny (Saratov, Krasnopartisanski)

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Urban-type settlement
Gorny
Горный
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Federal district Volga
Oblast Saratov
Rajon Krasnopartisansky
Founded 1931
Urban-type settlement since 1934
population 5084 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Time zone UTC + 4
Post Code 413540
License Plate 64, 164
OKATO 63 224 551
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 45 '  N , 48 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '40 "  N , 48 ° 32' 6"  E
Gorny (Saratov, Krasnopartisanski) (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Gorny (Saratov, Krasnopartisanski) (Saratov Oblast)
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Location in Saratov Oblast

Gorny ( Russian Горный ) is an urban-type settlement in the Russian Saratov Oblast with 5084 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Gorny is located near the central Volga near the cities of Saratov and Engels in the southeast of the Eastern European Plain .

history

The place was founded in 1931 in the course of the beginning of slate mining and received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1934. Today it is the administrative center of the Rajons Krasnopartisanski.

The village was first known as a storage facility for chemical weapons and from December 2002 as an extermination site. In 2000, around 690 tons of chemical weapons (including lewisite ) were stored near Gorny . By 2005, all chemical warfare agents stored in Gorny had been destroyed.

Population development

year Residents
1939 5598
1959 7174
1970 6238
1979 5713
1989 6578
2002 7098
2010 5084

Note: census data

See also

Individual evidence

  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)

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