Magnitka

This article covers the settlement in Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russia). For the company, see Magnitogorski metallurgitscheski Kombat . For the asteroid, see (2094) Magnitka .

Urban-type settlement Magnitka Магнитка Federal district Ural Oblast Chelyabinsk Rajon Kiss Founded 1931 Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 5170 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 370  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35154 Post Code 456950 License Plate 74, 174 OKATO 75 238 553 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 21 '  N , 59 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 20 '45 "  N , 59 ° 41' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Chelyabinsk Oblast

Magnitka ( Russian Магнитка ) is an urban-type settlement in Chelyabinsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 5170 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located on the western flank of the Southern Urals a good 160 km as the crow flies west of the Oblast capital Chelyabinsk on the Kussa , a right tributary of the Ai in the Kama river system .

Magnitka belongs to the Kussa Rajon and is located about 15 km east of its administrative center Kussa and just under 20 km north of the city ​​of Zlatoust .

history

In the 19th century, the hamlet of Kowaljowski was located on the site of today's western part of the settlement, called Kowali. Later a pitch furnace was built there . Titanomagnetite deposits were discovered in the area at the beginning of the 20th century, and large-scale mining began in the early 1930s. In this context, the mining settlement Magnitka (from Russian magnit for ' magnet ' , with reference to magnetic iron ores) was founded in 1931 . In 1938 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

The high point of mining in the area was the 1950s, when both underground and open-cast mines were used. After that, production declined more and more, was stopped around 1970 with extensive exhaustion of the ore reserves underground and towards the end of the 1980s also in the opencast mines. At the same time, the population of the place has continuously decreased until today.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5.116
1959	16,212
1970	10,990
1979	8,601
1989	7,198
2002	5,826
2010	5,170

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Southeast of Magnitka, in the direction of Zlatoust, the Taganai mountain range , which is almost 1200  m high and has been under protection as the Taganai National Park since 1991 , extends . In the vicinity of the place, instead of former mines and their spoil heaps, there are well-known mineral deposits , such as Akhmatovskaya, Nikolaye-Maximilianovskaya and Yeremeevskaya.

Infrastructure

Road connection exists in the direction of Zlatoust and Kussa. A railway line (freight traffic only) leads to station Ai , west of Zlatoust on the southern branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway ( Samara  - Chelyabinsk - Omsk ). North of Magnitka, the route continued to the Radostny iron ore open-cast mine, a good 20 km away.

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. ↑ Magnitka in the Slatouster Encyclopedia on the information portal of the city of Slatoust (Russian)