Yuzhnouralsk

city Yuzhnouralsk Yzhnouralsk flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Chelyabinsk Urban district Yuzhnouralsk head Yevgeny Sobolev Founded 1948 Earlier names Nizhne-Uwelskaja (until 1950) Yuzhnoralsky (1950–1963) City since 1963 surface 109  km² population 37,877 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 347 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 230  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35134 Post Code 457040-457044 License Plate 74, 174 OKATO 75 464 Website www.u-uralsk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 27 '  N , 61 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 27 '0 "  N , 61 ° 15' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Chelyabinsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Yuzhnouralsk ( Russian Южноуральск ) is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 37,877 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Southern Urals about 90 km south of the Oblast capital Chelyabinsk on the Uwelka , a left tributary of the Ui in the Ob river system .

Yuzhnouralsk is administratively directly subordinate to the oblast.

The city lies on the railway line Tscheljabinsk- Troitsk - Orsk or - Qostanai (Station Nischneuwelskaja , about 7 kilometers east of the city center) and the highway M36 Yekaterinburg -Troizk- Kazakh border.

history

A settlement in the area of ​​today's city was established in 1745, called itself Nizhne-Uwelskaya from 1749 and became Stanitsa of the Third Troitsk Department of the Orenburg Cossacks from 1844 .

The present city was built in 1948 in connection with the construction of the Southern Urals thermal power station (Russian: Yuzhnouralskaya GRES ). In 1950 the place was given the status of an urban-type settlement under the name Yuzhnouralski - Russian for South Urals (settlement) - and on February 1, 1963, in the current form of the name, city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	22,403
1970	35,323
1979	39,184
1989	41,335
2002	39,275
2010	37,877

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Church in Yuzhnouralsk

There has been a local museum in Yuzhnouralsk since 1989.

economy

In addition to the thermal power plant of the energy company OGK-3 , a plant for industrial ( insulators ) and household ceramics is the most important company in the city. In addition, construction and food 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

Commons : Yuzhnouralsk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Yuzhnouralsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)