Nizhnyaya Tura
city
Nizhnyaya Tura
Нижняя Тура
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Nizhnyaya Tura ( Russian: Нижняя Тура ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 22,006 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located on the eastern edge of the Urals , about 250 km north of the Oblast capital Yekaterinburg , on the Tura River . In the immediate vicinity, only about 5 km to the west, the much larger, formerly secret and today still "closed" city of Lesnoi (formerly Sverdlovsk-45 ) connects practically seamlessly to Nizhnyaya Tura .
The climate is continental.
The city of Nizhnyaya Tura is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast. The city is subordinate to 21 villages with a total of 6,888 inhabitants, so that the total number of inhabitants of the administrative unit "City of Nizhnyaya Tura" is 29,529 (2009 calculation).
Nizhnyaya Tura is located on a 13 km long branch line (freight traffic only) branching off at the Vyya station from the Kushwa railway line ( Goroblagodatskaya station ) - Serow .
history
Nizhnyaya Tura was built in 1754 as a settlement near the state ironworks of the same name . In 1824 , deposits of gold and platinum were discovered in the surrounding area on the rivers Is , Wyja and Tura , which at times ensured more than half of the extraction of these metals in the Ural region. In the mid-19th century (1852-1862) there was a weapons factory, converted later (1889-1893) in a prison for political prisoners and under the name in Schlüsselburg the Ural became known. The revolutionaries Jakow Sverdlov , Fyodor Sergejew (Artyom) and Ivan Malyshev were exiled to Nizhnyaya Tura .
Despite its earlier relative importance, the place was not granted city rights until 1949, after having had the status of an urban-type settlement since January 11, 1927 .
The name of the city refers to its location on the Tura River; Nizhnyaya means lower , in contrast to the city of Verkhnyaya Tura / Upper Tura .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 5,363 |
1959 | 20,638 |
1970 | 19,562 |
1979 | 22,926 |
1989 | 26,268 |
2002 | 24,247 |
2010 | 22.006 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
There is a local museum in Nizhnyaya Tura.
economy
Nizhnyaya Tura is the administrative and economic center of an important mining area. In addition to the corresponding mechanical engineering, electrical appliance and construction industries ( mineral wool ), there is forestry and the food industry.
The Lower Tura Thermal Power Plant ( Нижнетуринская ГРЭС / Nizhneturinskaya GRES) is located near the city . Oil and gas pipelines run past the city , which have control and pumping stations here.
sons and daughters of the town
- Pawel Obuchow (1820–1869), Russian mining engineer and metallurgist
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- City portal with the official website of the city administration (Russian)
- Nizhnyaya Tura on mojgorod.ru (Russian)