Yemanshelinsk
city
Jemanschelinsk
Еманжелинск
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List of cities in Russia |
Jemanschelinsk ( Russian Еманжелинск ) is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 30,216 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located on the eastern edge of the Southern Urals about 50 km south of the Oblast capital Chelyabinsk , at the mouth of the river Jemanschelinka in the lake Great Sarykul ( Bolshoi Sarykul ).
Jemanschelinsk is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .
The city lies on the railway line Tscheljabinsk- Troitsk - Orsk or - Qostanai and the highway M36 Yekaterinburg -Troizk- Kazakh border.
history
A Cossack settlement on the site of today's city was established in 1770 and was named after the stream Jamanselga that flows here ( Bashkir / Tatar for bad stream ). In a list of places from 1866 the village is already mentioned in the Russified form as Staniza Jemanschelinskaja .
1929–1931 began the exploration and mining of a coal deposit discovered in the vicinity of the place . A miners' settlement was established, which was given city rights on September 25, 1951 under the current name.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 11,080 |
1959 | 33,563 |
1970 | 33,389 |
1979 | 31,015 |
1989 | 31,153 |
2002 | 30.202 |
2010 | 30,216 |
Note: census data
economy
After the coal mining, which previously shaped Jemanschelinsk, was given up in 1997 with the closure of the last shafts, the machine factory Jemanschelinski mechanitscheski zavod is now the largest company in the city as a supplier of tractor construction. There are also other mechanical engineering, construction, textile and animal feed manufacturing companies.
sons and daughters of the town
- Friedrich Lips (* 1948), bayanist / accordionist
- Yevgeny Bareev (* 1966), chess player
- Irina Shayk (* 1986), model
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)
Web links
- City administration website (Russian)
- Jemanschelinsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)