Mailuusuu
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Mailuusuu Майлуусуу |
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 Kyrgyzstan
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| Territory : | Jalalabat | ||||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 16 ' N , 72 ° 28' E | ||||
| Height : | 850 m | ||||
| Area : | 122.16 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 22,853 (2009) | ||||
| Population density : | 187 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+996) 3744 | ||||
| Postal code : | 721100 | ||||
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| Community type : | city | ||||
Mailuusuu ( Kyrgyz Майлуусуу meaning "oily water"; Russian Майли-Сай ) is an industrial city with about 23,000 inhabitants (2009) in the Jalalabat region in southern Kyrgyzstan , 24 kilometers east of the border with Uzbekistan .
economy
Crude oil has been extracted here since the beginning of the 20th century , which explains the place name. Around the same time were here Radiobaryt -Occurrence discovered. Between 1946 and 1968, uranium was mined in the vicinity of the city . Here was carried out also its further processing . The uranium ores from other neighboring deposits as well as from the GDR , Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria were also processed here.
During the Second World War, Volga Germans , Crimean Tatars and, later, other groups of people who were unpopular to the Soviet regime were deported here to work in the mines and to set up the factories .
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of uranium mining and processing there, the city has had hard times: since the end of the uranium industry, there has not been much work for most of the local population. The worst legacy from the Soviet era, however, is the many (36 in total) unsecured uranium waste deposits on the steep and tectonically unstable mountain slopes above the city. According to a study published in October 2006 by the Blacksmith Institute in New York, Mailuusuu is one of the ten regions of the world most heavily polluted with toxins. Considerable investments are necessary to secure these overburden and by-product stores. The World Bank has been funding the first phase of such a program since 2003.
religion
Christianity
Evangelical Lutheran Church
In Mailuusuu there is a community that belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kyrgyz Republic . She is also taken care of from Jalalabat .
sons and daughters of the town
- Vitus Nagorny (* 1978), German soccer player
See also
Web links
- City profile. Archived from the original on May 5, 2017 ; accessed on March 1, 2020 (Russian).
- Kyrgyzstan (Mailuu-Suu) - Legacy Uranium Dumps. Final report of a project (2008-2009). In: Blacksmith Institute . Retrieved March 1, 2020 .
- Andrea Rehmsmeier: We breathe uranium, we eat uranium. Deutschlandfunk , October 10, 2009, accessed on March 1, 2020 .
- Dagmar Röhrlich: Kyrgyzstan's nuclear legacy. Deutschlandfunk, March 1, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doris Krause / Michael Hübner, big, small, old, new ... The communities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kyrgyzstan in short portraits , in: Special issue Lutheran Service . Journal of the Martin Luther Association, Volume 55, 2019, Issue 2, Pages 8–11