Issilkul
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Issilkul
Исилькуль
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List of cities in Russia |
Issilkul ( Russian Исилькуль ) is a city and administrative center in Issilkul Raion in Omsk Oblast with 24,482 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city of Issilkul is located in the Asian part of Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway , 145 km west of the city of Omsk and 17 km east of the Russian border with Kazakhstan .
history
Issilkul was founded in 1895 as a settlement for the railway construction workers on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A year later (1896) was the railway station isilkul opened. Since 1924 Issilkul has been the administrative center in Issilkul Rajon , which includes 57 towns and 2800 km² of land. In 1945 it was appointed town.
The name "Issilkul" comes from the name of the nearby lake "Issil-Kul", translated from the Kazakh language, the name means "Rotten Lake" (Russian "Гнилое озеро").
Population and language
The population consists predominantly of Russians, the ethnic minorities include Germans, Kazakhs and Ukrainians. The Russian language is used as the official language.
In the vicinity of Issilkul there are numerous settlements of Russian Germans who emigrated from southern Russia and from today's Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century . Their colloquial languages German , Volga German and Low German have been preserved there to this day.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 13,626 |
1959 | 25,466 |
1970 | 25,958 |
1979 | 25,734 |
1989 | 26,430 |
2002 | 26,549 |
2010 | 24,482 |
Note: census data
Economic development
The city of Issilkul has a stadium , food factories , a brick factory , a concrete factory and a furniture factory . An ice rink with around 800 seats was built in 2007.
Climat
- Average annual temperature - 2.2 ° C
- Relative humidity - 72.0%
- Average wind speed - 3.1 m / s
sons and daughters of the town
- Irene Langemann (* 1959), German film director
- Sergei Schelpakow (* 1956), cyclist and Olympic champion in 1980
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)