Lessosavodsk

city Lessosavodsk Lesosavodsk coat of arms Federal district far East region Primorye Urban district Lessosavodsk Founded 1932 City since 1938 surface 71  km² population 37,034 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 522 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 80  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 42355 Post Code 692031-692042 License Plate 25, 125 OKATO 05 411 Website mo.primorsky.ru/lesozavodsk Geographical location Coordinates 45 ° 28 '  N , 133 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 28 '0 "  N , 133 ° 24' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Primorye region

List of cities in Russia

Lessosavodsk ( Russian Лесозаводск ) is a city in the Primorye region ( Russia ) with 37,034 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Rushino station building in Lessosavodsk

The city is located in the Ussuri lowland about 300 km north of the regional capital, Vladivostok, on the Ussuri River , a right tributary of the Amur , just over 10 kilometers from the Chinese border.

The city of Lessosavodsk is administratively directly subordinate to the region and at the same time the administrative center of the raion of the same name (the city and raion have been under joint administration since 1992).

Lessosavodsk has a station on the Trans-Siberian Railway (station name Ruschino , route kilometers 8934 from Moscow ). The M60 "Ussuri" Khabarovsk - Vladivostok highway passes about 10 kilometers east of the city.

history

In 1924 the construction of a new plant began near a sawmill that had previously belonged to the merchant Borodin; the associated settlement was called Dalles (Russian Дальлес , from dalni for far in relation to the Far East of Russia , les for forest ). In 1932 it merged with the Novostroika settlement (Russian for new building ) to form the urban-type Lessosavodsk (Russian sawod for factory ). In 1938 town charter was granted.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	24,078
1959	32,124
1970	34,957
1979	38,790
1989	44,065
2002	42,185
2010	37.034

Note: census data

Culture and sights

There is a city history museum in Lessosavodsk.

25 kilometers south of Lessosavodsk is the Schmakowka (Gornyje Kljutschi), one of the most important health resorts in the Far East of Russia.

economy

The main branch of the economy is the wood industry, there are also companies in the light 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 : Lessozavodsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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