Lesnoi

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Lesnoi (disambiguation) .

city Lesnoi Лесной flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Sverdlovsk Urban district Lesnoi mayor Sergei Shchekalev Founded 1947 Earlier names Sverdlovsk-45 City since 1954 surface 360  km² population 50,363 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 140 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 34342 Post Code 624200-624219 License Plate 66, 96, 196 OKATO 65 542 Website www.gorodlesnoy.ru Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 38 '  N , 59 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 38 '0 "  N , 59 ° 47' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Lesnoi ( Russian Лесной ) is a city with 50,363 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ). It has had the status of a so-called closed city (SATO) since its inception.

geography

Lesnoi is located on the Tura River in the west of the Sverdlovsk Oblast, close to the eastern slope of the Urals and about 200 km north of the regional capital, Yekaterinburg . In the immediate vicinity of Lesnoi is the city of Nizhnyaya Tura ; other nearby cities are Kachkanar (18 km northwest) and Verkhnyaya Tura (29 km south).

Lesnoi is the center of an urban district within the Sverdlovsk Oblast, which also includes the settlements of Jolkino, Buschujewka and Tajoschny.

history

The Lesnoi Culture House

Lesnoi (literally "forest town") was founded in 1947 on the occasion of the establishment of a combine for the production of nuclear weapons technology . Since this type of production is subject to strict secrecy in the former Soviet Union as well as in today's Russia, Lesnoi was a closed city from the beginning and was only known under the code name Sverdlovsk-45 until 1994 . To this day, access to the city, as is customary in all closed cities in Russia, is basically only reserved for residents and employees.

Lesnoi received city status in 1954.

Population development

• 1996: 54,500
• 2000: 54,400
• 2005: 53,300

Economy and Transport

The main branch of the economy is still the armaments industry, the most important of which is the Elektrochimpribor combine, which was founded at the same time as the city . Today, however, it not only produces nuclear weapons technology (such as uranium ammunition), but also civilian products such as televisions or washing machines. There are also factories for asphalt, concrete and food production in Lesnoi. The city has a total of around 500 different businesses.

Transport connections from Lesnoi with the outside world exist mainly via the neighboring Nizhnyaya Tura, from where a regional road (R352) leads to Serow in the north or Nizhny Tagil and Yekaterinburg in the south. There is also a railway connection there.

Education and culture

The city is home to a branch of the National Physics Engineering School Moscow . The city has a theater and a local museum .

sons and daughters of the town

• Valery Bragin (* 1956), ice hockey player and today's coach
• Natalja Strunnikova (* 1964), swimmer
• Igor Badamschin (1966-2014), cross-country skier
• Jelena Stichina (* 1986), opera singer
• Olga Glazkich (* 1989), gymnast and Olympic champion
• Xenia Perowa (* 1989), archer
• Vladimir Maslennikov (* 1994), marksman

Web links

• Official website of the city (Russian)
• Lesnoi on mojgorod.ru (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. ↑ Natalja Strunnikowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English)
3. ↑ Xenia Perowa in the database of Sports-Reference (English)