Kisel
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Kisel
Кизел
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List of cities in Russia |
Kisel ( Russian Кизел ) is a city in the Perm region ( Russia ) with 19,587 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the western foreland of the Middle Urals , about 200 km northeast of the regional capital Perm on the Kisel River in the Kama basin .
The city of Kisel is administratively directly subordinate to the region and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .
Kisel lies on the Chusovoy (Chusovaya) - Solikamsk railway line, which opened in 1879 .
history
Kisel was founded around 1750 and received city rights in 1926.
In the city there was a prisoner of war camp 346 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War .
With the decline of the once important coal mining industry and its relocation to other areas, the number of inhabitants has fallen considerably since the 1960s.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 4,400 |
1939 | 39,365 |
1959 | 60,687 |
1970 | 46.264 |
1979 | 39,831 |
1989 | 36,746 |
2002 | 23,841 |
2010 | 19,587 |
Note: Census data (1897 rounded)
See also
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)
- ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.
Web links
- City Council website (Russian)
- Kisel on mojgorod.ru (Russian)