Malinovoye Osero

Urban-type settlement Malinovoe Osero Малиновое Озеро Federal district Siberia region Altai Rajon Mikhailovskoye First mention 1920s Urban-type settlement since 1942 population 3586 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 160  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38570 Post Code 658969 License Plate 22nd OKATO 01 227 554 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 41 ′  N , 79 ° 47 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 30 ″  N , 79 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Altai region

Malinowoje Osero ( Russian Мали́новое О́зеро ) is an urban-type settlement in the Altai region in southern Western Siberia ( Russia ) with 3586 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located in the southwest part of the Kulunda steppe in the middle of one of the "ribbon forests " characteristic of the area , elongated pine forest massifs that run parallel for several hundred kilometers in a south-west-north-east direction . The settlement is about 350 kilometers in a south-westerly direction from the regional capital Barnaul and 30 kilometers from the border with Kazakhstan .

Malinowoje Osero belongs to the Mikhailovskoye Rajons , whose administrative center Mikhailovskoye (up to 1991 urban-type Mikhailovsky settlement) is a good 15 kilometers north.

A shallow depression of about 100 km² with a large number of salt lakes , called the Salt Lake Steppe (Russian Soljono-Osjornaja Step ), extends immediately north of the settlement. One of the lakes, the Raspberry Lake, in Russian Malinowoje osero , gave the place its name. Smaller depressions in the forest area south of the village are also occupied by salt lakes, the Tanatar lakes .

history

The place arose from the end of the 1920s in connection with the construction of a soda factory based on 1928 geologically investigated soda deposits in the Tanatar lakes. In 1929 the production of soda was started and the establishment of the Mikhailovsk Soda Combine began.

When the importance of the soda deposit increased sharply after the German invasion of the Soviet Union - it covered 70% of the Soviet Union's need for calcined soda during the war years - the plant was expanded considerably and, by decision of the State Defense Committee on January 20, 1943, with the establishment a railway line starting from the Kulunda station 118 kilometers north-west . In 1944 it started operations (from 1953 for public transport).

As early as 1942, the place had received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Later, especially from the 1960s, the plant also started producing other chemicals. In 1977 it was renamed the Mikhailovsk plant for chemical reagents .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	7293
1970	5277
1979	4728
1989	5009
2002	4133
2010	3586

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The establishment company is the Mikhailovsk Chemical Reagents Plant . Among other things, it is the only supplier of basic magnesium carbonate and copper acetate in Russia.

Malinowoje Osero is the terminus of a railway line from Kulunda. The further construction in a south-westerly direction, which had begun in the Second World War to close the gap to the Turkestan-Siberian Railway between Rubzowsk and Semipalatinsk , was discontinued at the end of the war. In the 1970s, the work was resumed when the line was completely re-routed and the 111-kilometer connection to the Lokot station southwest of Rubzowsk was provisionally put into operation in 1980. However, the final completion and acceptance did not take place for unknown reasons, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union , operations on the new section of the line were discontinued, especially since the Lokot connecting station - although not far from the border on the territory of Russia - was operated by the Kazakh State Railways.

One of the roads connecting Rubtsovsk and Kulunda also runs through Malinowoje Osero.

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. ↑ Changes in the administrative-territorial structure of the subjects of the Russian Federation in the years 1989–2002 on the official website for the 2002 census (Russian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} History of the work ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the company's website (Russian with photos; English ( memento of the original from September 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )  
4. ↑ Information about the work at rusmarket.ru (Russian)
5. ↑ ^{a b} G. Afonina: Kratkie svedenija o razvitii otečestvennich železnich dorog s 1838 po 1990 g. MPS (Ministry of Transport Infrastructures), Moscow 1996 ( Brief information on the development of the national railways from 1838 to 1990 ; Russian).