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This article covers the city of Okha in Russia. For the organization abbreviated as OCHA, see United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs .

city Ocha Оха flag coat of arms Federal district far East Oblast Sakhalin Rajon Oh yeah Founded 1880 City since 1938 surface 44  km² population 23,008 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 523 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 30  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 42437 Post Code 69449x License Plate 65 OKATO 64 425 Website www.okhacity.ru Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 35 '  N , 142 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '0 "  N , 142 ° 56' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Sakhalin Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Ocha ( Russian Оха ) is a city in the Sakhalin Oblast ( Russia ) with 23,008 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the north of the Sakhalin Island, about 850 km north of the Oblast capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk near the east coast between the bays ( lagoons ) Urkt and Ketu of the Sea of Okhotsk .

The city of Ocha is directly subordinate to the oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

Okha is the end of the road from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to the north of the island. Until the end of 2006, a narrow-gauge (750 mm) railway line ran from Nogliki to Ocha. A broad gauge line that connects Ocha with the port of Moskalwo on the west coast, about 30 kilometers away , is also out of service.

history

After crude oil was discovered in the area of ​​today's city in 1880 , the settlement that was initially called Oche , later Ocha , was built. Industrial production of oil began in 1923, during the occupation of the northern part of Sakhalin Island by Japanese troops in 1920-1925. In 1938 Ocha received city rights.

A devastating earthquake struck on May 28, 1995 near Neftegorsk in the southern part of Okha Rajon. The settlement was completely destroyed. Around 2000 residents were killed. A quake that was only half as strong occurred on May 10, 2005 in the Sabo oil workers' settlement and the city of Ocha, with no casualties or destruction.

The previous mayor of the city of Okha, Alexander Khoroshavin, was appointed governor of Sakhalin Oblast in August 2007 .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	19,601
1959	27,636
1970	30,890
1979	32,925
1989	36,104
2002	27,963
2010	23.008

Note: census data

Culture and sights

There has been a local museum in Ocha since 1971.

economy

Besides the oblast capital of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Okha is the center of Sakhalin's oil and gas production . From here a pipeline leads to Komsomolsk-on-Amur .

Around Ocha, oil is mainly produced by Rosneft from over 3000 wells, for example from the deposits of Zentralnaja Ocha, Katangli and Odoptu. Environmentalists have expressed concerns on several occasions about the payouts from the production facilities, the drilling mud dumps and the condition of the pipelines.

There is also a thermal power plant and companies in the wood, construction and food industries.

sons and daughters of the town

• Olga Kaminer , author
• Yevgenia Kravtsova , biathlete
• Rifat Schajchutdinow , politician of the Civic Platform

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)
2. ↑ Message on the city portal (Russian)

Web links

Commons : Ocha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Unofficial city portal (Russian)
• Ocha on mojgorod.ru (Russian)