Norak
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Norak Норак |
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 Tajikistan
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| Province : | Chatlon | ||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 23 ' N , 69 ° 19' E | ||
| Height : | 660 m | ||
| Residents : | 27,200 (2014 (estimate)) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+992) +380 | ||
| Postal code : | 73 | ||
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| Community type: | city | ||
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Norak ( Tajik Норак , Russian Нурек ), inscription from the Russian Nurek, is a city and the capital of the district of the same name ( Nohija ) in the Khatlon province in western Tajikistan . The town was founded in the 1960s as a place to live for the workers who were involved in the construction of the nearby Nurek Dam . Today it is known as a destination to visit the reservoir.
location
Norak lies at an altitude of 660 meters on the right northern bank of the Wachsch , which in this area deviates from its general direction of flow from northeast to southwest in a large arc to the north through rugged mountains. The dam closes the gorge at its narrowest point east of the city center. The over 70 kilometers long reservoir with a water surface of 98 square kilometers is bordered on its north side by the 2963 meter high Surch Mountains and in the south by the Wachsch mountain range. This reaches heights of over 3000 meters further north and near Norak with several peaks just over 2000 meters. From the southwest, the foothills of the Sarsarak mountain range (Russian Sanglok), which reach 2303 meters above sea level, slide into the river arch. Norak is at the end of a basin, the only exit of which is the Wachsch Gorge. The Russian Okno space observation station is located seven kilometers southwest of Norak at an altitude of 2200 meters in the Sarsarak Mountains .
From the state capital Dushanbe , the M41 trunk road initially leads 21 Kimoleter east to the small town of Wahdat . There the A385 branches off to the southeast and after a further 34 kilometers through the mountains reaches the valley of the Wachsch. It is six kilometers from the junction to the city center. From Norak to the south, the A385 first cuts the former pass road over the Sarasak mountain range through the 2232 meters high Schar-Schar tunnel and after around 50 kilometers reaches the first town of Danghara , from where one stretch east to Kulob and another south-west leads to Qurghonteppa .
The Norak district forms the northern edge of the southwestern province of Chatlon against the central province of Nohijahoi tobei dschumhurij along the Wachsch . The neighboring districts belonging to Chatlon are Chowaling in the east, Danghara in the south and Jowon in the west.
Geologically speaking, Norak lies on the Tajik Depression , a buffer zone of Mesozoic sediments surrounded by several active tectonic zones . It forms a strip east of Norak between the high mountains Tian Shan in the north and the Pamir in the south. At Nurek, this depression curves to the south and widens to an area that extends from the Hisortal (around the city of Hisor ) in the north to its southern edge on the Amu Darya. The zone northeast of Norak is seismically much more active than the less active Hisortal. The sudden change of direction of Vakhsh south at Nurek is (English: in the field of Illiak-fault zone Illiak fault ), in which a particularly high seismic activity is measured. The construction of the Nurek dam further increased the susceptibility of this region to earthquakes, i.e. the induced seismicity .
Cityscape
The first plans for a dam on the Wachsch were made in the 1950s. The construction of the 300 meter high Nurek Dam began in 1961. At the same time, a city was created to accommodate the workers. In 1972 the power plant supplied electricity for the first time and in 1979 the dam was completely filled. The total cost of the dam, including the city, was $ 1.25 billion.
According to official censuses, the population was 13,165 in 1970 and 19,126 in 1979. In 1989 the number had risen to 20,752, in 2000 it was 19,256 and in 2010 it was 24,831. For 2014 27,200 inhabitants are estimated.
The built-up urban area in the west-east direction is over six kilometers in the narrow valley floor. The smaller part is made up of a uniformly laid out residential area in the south of the river. The houses lined up there with the long side on the street include tree-lined gardens behind them. There is also a deep blue swimming lake on the south bank.
The main street in the city center on the north bank is Lenin Street ( ulitza Lenina ). A bronze statue in the central square on the south side of the main street commemorates the eponymous Lenin . The square is surrounded by a building of the city administration, a branch of the Orienbank (Leninstrasse 10) run by family members of the president and a renovated, formerly state hotel ( Mechmonhonai Sayora.S ). Diagonally across from Lenin Square, on the north side of Lenin Street, a fruit and vegetable market is held in the alleys. A small city park extends to the west of the square. There is a monument to the builders of the city near the river. Long four-story apartment blocks in the style of Soviet urban planning line the wide Lenin Street. A belt of industrial ruins from the Soviet era surrounds the city center on both sides.
To the foot of the dam it is about 1.5 kilometers to the east from the center, and three kilometers to the viewpoint with a view over the reservoir. Travel there may be restricted for foreigners and locals with no connections.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Luis Berga, JM Buil, E. Bofill, JC De Cea, JA Garcia Perez, G. Mañueco, J. Polimon, A. Soriano, J. Yagüe (Eds.): Dams and Reservoirs, Societies and Environment in the 21st Century . ( Proceedings of the International Symposium on Dams in the Societies of the 21st Century, 22nd International Congress on Large Dams (ICOLD), Barcelona, Spain, June 18, 2006 ) CRC Press, Boca Raton (Florida) 2006, p. 99
- ↑ JC Thomas, D. Capais, PR Cobbold, V. Meyer, VS Burtman: Tertiary Kinematics of the Tajik Depression (Centralasia): Interferences from Fault and Fold Patterns . Geodynamic Evolution of Sedimentary Basins, International Symposium, Moscow 1994, pp. 171–180, here p. 172
- ↑ HK Gupta: Reservoir Induced Earthquakes . Elsevier Science, 1992, p. 111
- ↑ Dzhonon Ikrami: From Nurek to Rogun . Tajik Mission, January 2012
- ↑ Hojamahmad Umarov, Jamoloddin Mahmadshoev: Transformation Process in the Tajikistan economy. CA&CC Press
- ↑ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1970 г. demoscope.ru
- ↑ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 г. demoscope.ru
- ^ The provinces of Tajikistan as well as all cities and urban settlements of more than 10,000 inhabitants. City population
- ^ Tajikistan: A Ruling Family Feud Appears to Turn Bloody. ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2014 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. Eurasianet.org, May 8, 2008
