Gussinoosjorsk

city Gussinoosjorsk Гусиноозёрск Federal district far East republic Buryatia Rajon Selenga Founded 1939 City since 1953 surface 13  km² population 24,582 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1891 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 580  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 30145 Post Code 671160-671162 License Plate 03 OKATO 81 248 501 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 17 '  N , 106 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '0 "  N , 106 ° 30' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Buryatia

List of cities in Russia

Gussinoosjorsk ( Russian Гусиноозёрск ) is a city in the Republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) with 24,582 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in Transbaikalia , about 110 km southwest of the republic capital Ulan-Ude , at the northeast end of the Gussinojesees in the broad valley, through which the Selenga flows, between the foothills of the Chamar-Daban in the west and the Selenga mountains in the east.

The city of Gussinoosjorsk is the administrative center of the Selenga Rajon ( Selenginski rajon ).

Gussinoosjorsk is located on the A165 Ulan-Ude- Mongolian border and five kilometers from the Sagustai station of the Trans-Mongolian Railway Ulan-Ude- Nauschki - Ulaanbaatar .

history

Gussinoosjorsk was established in 1939 as the Shakhty settlement as part of the development of the brown coal deposits discovered here and received city rights in 1953 under its current name. It was named after the lake, which is Russian for goose lake .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	11,598
1970	13,807
1979	22,320
1989	29,790
2002	26,502
2010	24,582

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The Gussinojesee south of the city

At the opposite, southwestern end of the lake, about 30 kilometers from Gussinoosjorsk, a Buddhist monastery, the Tamtschinski-Dazan, has existed since 1741 near the present-day settlement of Gussinoje Osero .

In the village of Novoselenginsk, about 25 kilometers southeast, there is a museum, originally founded in 1845, for the Decembrists who were exiled here and partly buried in the village .

economy

The main industry of the city is lignite, which at times came to a halt during the economic crisis of the 1990s, in Cholboldschin- open pit ( Холбольджинский / Cholboldschinski) on the east bank of the Gussinojesees and based on this energy with that of the OGK-3 operated Gussinoosjorsker thermal power plant ( Гусиноозёрская ГРЭС / Gussinoosjorskaja GRES). There are also companies in the light and food industry as well as the construction industry.

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)

Web links

• Unofficial Portal (Russian)
• Gussinoosjorsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)