Komarowski (Orenburg)

settlement Komarovski Комаровский flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Orenburg Urban district Komarovsky head Alexander Podoinikov Founded 1972 Earlier names Dombarowski-3 Settlement since 2011 population 8064 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35368 Post Code 462781 License Plate 56 OKATO 53 555 Website zato-komarovsky.ru Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 2 '  N , 59 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '30 "  N , 59 ° 52' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Orenburg Oblast

Komarowski ( Russian Комаро́вский ) is a closed settlement in the Orenburg Oblast ( Russia ) with 8064 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located about 350 km as the crow flies east- south- east of the Orenburg oblast administrative center and about 25 km from the state border with Kazakhstan , immediately south of the territory of the small town of Jasny . As a "closed administrative-territorial entity" (SATO) the settlement forms a separate city district (Gorodskoi okrug), the full area of the Rajons Jasnenski is enclosed.

history

The place emerged as a military settlement at a base of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Soviet Union as part of the town of Jasny from 1962. In 1972 it became an independent, secret urban-type settlement and initially had the code name Dombarowski-3 after the settlement Dombarowski located almost 40 km southwest . In 1994 the place was given the status of a "closed", but no longer secret, urban-type settlement under its current name in honor of the cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov , who died in 1967 with Soyuz 1 in the Orenburg Oblast, a good 40 km northwest of the place . Komarowski has been a rural settlement since 2011.

Population development

year	Residents
2002	8344
2010	8064

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Local development it is the base Dombarowski the Strategic Missile Forces (RWSN) of the Russian armed forces with 30 west and north of the settlement distributed missile silos for R-36M - intercontinental ballistic missiles . The base is also used commercially under the name Kosmodrom Jasny . The cosmodrome is about 7 km north of Jasny and Komarowski.

Together with the city of Jasny, Komarowski has road and rail connections ( Gorny Ljon station , end point of a branch line 4 km southeast) in the direction of the city of Orsk, which is almost 100 km to the west .

Web links

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

• Official Website (Russian)

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)
2. ↑ Russian strategic nuclear forces (English)