Minusinsk

city Minussinsk Минусинск flag coat of arms Federal district Siberia region Krasnoyarsk Urban district Minusinsk mayor Oleg Sokolov Founded 1739 City since 1822 surface 62  km² population 71,170 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1148 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 250  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 39132 Post Code 66260x License Plate 24, 84, 88, 124 OKATO 04 423 Website minusinsk.info Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 42 '  N , 91 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 42 '0 "  N , 91 ° 41' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Krasnoyarsk Territory

List of cities in Russia

Minussinsk ( Russian Минусинск ) is a Russian district town with 71,170 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Krasnoyarsk region at the tributary of the Yenisei in the Krasnoyarsk reservoir in Siberia .

geography

Minusinsk is located near the Yenisei, about 260 km south of Krasnoyarsk as the crow flies and 25 km east of Abakan , the capital of the Republic of Khakassia .

Today Minussinsk is the terminus of a junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway . In future, the line is to be extended through the western Sayan Mountains into the Tuva Republic to Kyzyl . The city is also on the R257 (formerly M54) trunk road .

history

The Minussinsk spa culture (Bronze Age) lasted from around 1000 BC. Chr. To 1 AD

Founded in 1739 as the village of Minjusa (Миньюса), renamed Minusinskoje (Минусинское) in 1810 , the place became a city in 1822 under its current name. It developed as a center for agriculture, leather and fur processing, and textile production. Minusinsk was a place of exile from the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century . In the area around Shushenskoye , Lenin was also in political exile from 1897 to 1900.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	10,231
1926	20,400
1939	31,354
1959	38,318
1970	40,763
1979	56,237
1989	72,942
2002	72,561
2010	71,170

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

Minusinsk has a theater and various churches.

The Martyanov Museum is an important museum that is over 100 years old. It shows exhibits on the nature and history of the region.

In the surroundings of Minusinsk there is a large depot and a workshop for the old locomotives of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Economy and education

The city's main industries are the electrotechnical and food industries, as well as the manufacture of furniture and textiles. In Minusinsk, the mineral resources are shipped from Tuva to the Yenisei or Krasnoyarsk reservoir or transported by rail.

There is a branch of the Moscow Electrotechnical University in Minusinsk.

Others

Life in Minussinsk is the subject of the novel Minus of 1971 in Kyzyl -born writer Roman Sentschin .

Town twinning

• Norilsk , Russia

sons and daughters of the town

• Alexander Alexandrowitsch Menkow (* 1990), long jumper

literature

• Roman Senčin: Minus. Dumont Literature and Art Verlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7849-X .

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  Martyanov Museum, statue of gods

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  Martyanov Museum, World War II room

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

• Information about the city (Russian)
• Minussinsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• A necropolis from four millennia of Siberian prehistory
• http://www.centrovoz.ru/04_city/01_hist_de.htm (partly in German)