Issilkul

city Issilkul Исилькуль flag Federal district Siberia Oblast Omsk Rajon Issilkul Founded 1895 City since 1945 surface 39  km² population 24,482 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 628 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 6 Telephone code (+7) 38173 Post Code 646020-646025 License Plate 55 OKATO 52 405 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 54 '  N , 71 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 54 '0 "  N , 71 ° 16' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Omsk Oblast

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
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

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

• Issilkul in the online lexicon mojgorod.ru (Russian)