Kirensk

city Kirensk Киренск coat of arms Federal district Siberia Oblast Irkutsk Rajon Kirensk mayor Pyotr Neupokoyev Founded 1630 City since 1775 surface 21  km² population 12,640 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 602 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 260  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 39568 Post Code 666700-666705 License Plate 38, 85, 138 OKATO 25 220 501 Website kirenski.narod.ru Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 47 '  N , 108 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 47 '0 "  N , 108 ° 6' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Irkutsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kirensk ( Russian Киренск ) is a city in Irkutsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 12,640 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 700 km north of the Oblast capital Irkutsk at the confluence of the Kirenga in the Lena .

The city of Kirensk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

There are no year-round road connections to Kirensk; The city can only be reached in winter via a road that partially runs over the ice of the Lena. The city has an airport and a river port.

climate

The climate is strictly continental . The annual mean temperature is −3.5 ° C, the mean July temperature is +18.8 ° C, the mean January temperature is −26.9 ° C. The mean annual amount of precipitation is 381 mm with a maximum in the summer months.

history

Kirensk was founded in 1630 by Cossacks under the name Nikolsky pogost . In 1639 Jerofei Khabarov had a salt works built. The place developed into an important trading center on the route to Yakutsk . From 1650 fairs took place and a customs post was set up. 1665 was Ostrog built and the place in Kirenski ostrog renamed after the opening out here in the Lena Kirenga (of Evenki kiri for dirt , so dirty river as gravel and stones in many sections of the river of manganese compounds are colored dark).

In 1775 the place was raised to the district seat of the Irkutsk governorate .

In the 19th century, Kirensk was a place of exile for political prisoners. B. Józef Piłsudski and Ales Harun .

During the First World War, the German ethnologist Oskar Iden-Zeller and his wife Anita Iden-Zeller stayed as exiles in the city. A description of their stay and the life of the exiles in the city can be found in their book The Path of Tears .

In 2001 Kirensk was badly affected by a flood of the Lena, but not practically completely destroyed like the Lensk downstream .

Population development

Climate diagram

year	Residents
1897	2,280
1926	4,694
1939	12,786
1959	14,412
1970	14,453
1979	16,154
1989	16,137
2002	13,712
2010	12,640

Note: census data

Culture, education and sights

Kirensk Cathedral

In the city center, which is on an island between Lena and Kirenga, a number of wooden houses from the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries have been preserved, such as the former wine storage (or liquor storage ) from 1906 to 1912.

There is a local museum.

economy

In Kirensk there are companies for ship repair, wood processing and the 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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line

Web links

Commons : Kirensk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City's unofficial website (Russian)
• Kirensk on a private website (Russian, with many photos)
• Kirensk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)