Mirny (Sacha)

city Mirny Мирный ( Russian ) Мирнэй ( Yakut ) flag coat of arms Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Mirny mayor Sergei Alexandrov Founded 1955 City since 1959 surface 123  km² population 37,188 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 302 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 340  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41136 Post Code 678170-678175 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 404 Website www.gorodmirny.ru Geographical location Coordinates 62 ° 32 '  N , 113 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 62 ° 32 '0 "  N , 113 ° 59' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

List of cities in Russia

Mirny ( Russian Мирный , Yakut Мирнэй / Mirnej ) is a city in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) ( Russia ) with 37,188 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The town lies on the border of Lena plateau and Wiljuiplateau , about 820 km west of the capital of Republic of Yakutsk , the river Ireljach , a left tributary of the Vilyuy River opens Otschtschugui-Botuobuija .

The city of Mirny is administratively directly subordinate to the republic and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name (Ulus).

Mirny is connected to Lensk and Udachny by roads and has an airport.

According to Köppen and Geiger, Mirny is assigned to the Dfc climate class (cold, damp winter climate with short summers). The annual average temperature is −9.5 ° C with an average annual precipitation of 353 mm.

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  Open-cast diamond mine "Mir"

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  Central square

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  Trinity Cathedral

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  Prefabricated buildings in "pile construction" on permafrost ground

history

On August 21, 1954, here from the geologist Larissa Popugajewa the first Kimberlitschlot Siberia and the Soviet Union discovered and Sarniza called on 13 June 1955 by Yekaterina Jelagina, Yuri Chabardin and Viktor Avdeyev of even larger and more conveniently located vent Mir . In the same year the detailed exploration of the chimney began, and in the immediate vicinity a settlement was founded, which was named Mirny after the chimney (Russian Mir for peace ; mirny for peaceful ). Already in 1959, with the start of diamond mining , the place received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	5,695
1970	23,826
1979	30,462
1989	38,793
2002	39,981
2010	37,188

Note: census data

Culture, education and sights

In Mirny there is a Diamond Research and Project Institute (Yakutniproalmas) and a branch of the North-Eastern Federal University .

The city has a museum dedicated to the city's history and diamond mining.

The erection of a bust of Stalin on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in World War II caused a sensation in 2005 .

economy

Mirny is the center of Russian diamond mining by ALROSA .

In 2004, diamond production in the meantime over 500 meters deep vent was me for days adjusted since 2009 and the deposit is in civil engineering won. The Internazionalnaja ( ⊙ ) vent has been exploited since 1969 , initially also in open-cast mining, and since 1981 underground. The Jubileinaja chimneys and the Sarnitsa , which was discovered first, have also been dismantled since the 1990s ; two more have been explored and prepared for dismantling ( Botuobinskaya and Nyurbinskaya ). Another large open- cast kimberlite mine is located in Udatschny, approx. 450 km to the north .

There are also companies in the food and construction industries.

See also

• List of cities in the Sakha Republic

literature

• Gregor Sailer: Closed cities ; Heidelberg, Berlin: Kehrer, 2012. ISBN 978-3-86828-328-0 .

Remarks

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. ↑ Klimadiagramme.de
3. ^ Reuben Adams: The mystery of Russia's dangling carats . In The Australian Mining Review, March 28, 2012 (English)
4. ↑ Mining. In: eng.alrosa.ru. Retrieved September 11, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Mirny  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Mirny on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Diamond mine Mirny: Gemstones from the ice hell , in Spiegel Online , one day , accessed on January 2, 2013