Luchegorsk

Urban-type settlement Luchegorsk Luchegorsk Federal district far East region Primorye Rajon Poscharsky First mention 1965 Urban-type settlement since 1966 population 21,004 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 80  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 42357 Post Code 692000-692001 License Plate 25, 125 OKATO 05 234 551 Geographical location Coordinates 46 ° 27 '  N , 134 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 27 '0 "  N , 134 ° 17' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Primorye region

List of large settlements in Russia

Lutschegorsk ( Russian Лучегорск ) is an urban-type settlement in the Primorye region ( Russia ) with 21,004 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Primorskaya GRES thermal power plant near Lutschegorsk

The settlement is located in the Far East of Russia in a depression formed by the Ussuri tributary Bikin in the middle of the western foothills of the Sichote-Alin , a good 400 kilometers northeast of the regional capital Vladivostok not far from the border with the People's Republic of China and the Khabarovsk region .

Luchegorsk has been the administrative center of Poscharsky Rajon since 1970 .

history

The place originated in the 1960s when coal mining began nearby and the construction of a thermal power plant began. For this purpose, the small left Bikin tributary Kontrowod was dammed into a cooling water reservoir several square kilometers in size.

In 1966 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement. Its name is derived from the Russian luch ( лучь ) for ray . Luchegorsk is now the largest place in the Far East of Russia without city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	3,771
1979	11,891
1989	21,825
2002	22,365
2010	21.004

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The economy of the place consists of the coal opencast mines northwest of the place and the coal -fired Primorskaya thermal power station ( Primorskaya GRES ) with an output of 1495  megawatts . The first power plant block was put into operation in 1974, the last one in 1990. The planned output was 2,750 MW, but further construction was discontinued in 1992.

Lutschegorsk has a station on the Trans-Siberian Railway eight kilometers west of the town (route km 8803 from Moscow ). The M60 "Ussuri" Khabarovsk - Vladivostok highway runs through the town.

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. ↑ Lutschegorsk fuel and energy complex  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the operator  

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