Nizhnyaya Salda

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city
Nizhnyaya Salda
Нижняя Салда
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Federal district Ural
Oblast Sverdlovsk
Urban district Nizhnyaya Salda
mayor Valery Spiridonov
Founded 1760
City since 1938
surface 81  km²
population 17,619 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density 218 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center 180  m
Time zone UTC + 5
Telephone code (+7) 34345
Post Code 624740-624742
License Plate 66, 96, 196
OKATO 65 477
Geographical location
Coordinates 58 ° 5 '  N , 60 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 5 '0 "  N , 60 ° 43' 0"  E
Nizhnyaya Salda (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Nizhnyaya Salda (Sverdlovsk Oblast)
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Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast
List of cities in Russia

Nizhnyaya Salda ( Russian: Нижняя Салда ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 17,619 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Urals , 150 km north of the oblast capital Yekaterinburg and 50 km east of Nizhny Tagil , on the Salda River . The climate is continental.

The city of Nizhnyaya Salda is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast.

Nizhnyaya Salda is located on the Nizhny Tagil - Alapayevsk railway line, which opened in 1912 .

history

Nizhnyaya Salda was built in 1760 when an ironworks belonging to Nikita Akinfijewitsch Demidow (the grandson of Nikita Demidowitsch Demidow ) was completed here. In the 19th century, the ironworks played an important role in the introduction of new production processes for what was then Russia, such as a modified Bessemer process (by Konstantin Polenow and Wladimir Grum-Grschimailo, among others ).

In 1938 the place received city rights.

Population development

year Residents
1939 19,446
1959 21,382
1970 21,484
1979 20,828
1989 20,932
2002 18,067
2010 17,619

Note: census data

Culture, education and sights

There is a research institute for mechanical engineering in Nizhnyaya Salda.

The city has a local museum.

On the western edge of the city there is a grove with Siberian stone pines that are up to 320 years old .

economy

In addition to the steel and rolling mills, there are construction ( cement ) and forestry companies.

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

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