Osyorny (Smolensk)

Urban-type settlement Osjorny Озёрный Federal district Central Russia Oblast Smolensk Rajon Dukhovshchinsky head Oksana Tikhonova Urban-type settlement since 1973 population 5933 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48166 Post Code 216239 License Plate 67 OKATO 66 216 555 Website ozerniy.admin-smolensk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 35 ′  N , 32 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 34 ′ 30 ″  N , 32 ° 24 ′ 30 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Smolensk Oblast

Osjorny ( Russian Озёрный ) is an urban-type settlement in Smolensk Oblast in Russia with 5933 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 90 km as the crow flies north-northeast of the Smolensk Oblast Administrative Center , a good 10 km from the border with Tver Oblast . It is located on the left bank of the river Arschat ( Аржать ) overlying Tschitschatka and Mesha to Daugava flows. To the east of the settlement, water is transferred from the Assat into the Smolensk Reservoir through an approximately 2.5 km long canal, which was created in the 1970s by further damming the former Soschno Lake on the Schesnitsa, another left tributary of the Mesha.

Osjorny belongs to the Duchowschtschinski Rajon and is located a good 40 km north of its administrative center Duchowschtschina . It is the seat of the municipality of Osjornenskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the five villages Dubovitsy (3 km east), Gorki (southwards), Muschitskoje (2.5 km west-southwest), Tabor (1 km southwest) and Vishnevka (1 km southeast) belong.

history

The settlement emerged from around 1970 in connection with the construction of the Smolenskaya GRES thermal power plant a good three kilometers north, at the southwest end of the Smolensk reservoir created as a cooling water lake for the power plant. In 1973 Osjorny received urban-type settlement status. The name means "lake settlement", from Russian osero for "lake".

On January 12, 1978, the first unit of the power plant went into operation. Today (as of 2018) it has an output of 630 MW , belongs to Unipro and is still the only larger company in the area.

Population development

year	Residents
1979	5352
1989	6829
2002	6380
2010	5933

Note: census data

traffic

Osjorny is today with the stations Soschno (closer to town) and Promyslennaya (near the power station) again the end point of a 100-kilometer-long railway line officially put into operation in 1979 from Walutino near Smolensk on the Moscow  - Minsk  - Brest ( Belarus ) line. The continuation built in the 1980s to Scharkowski in Tver Oblast, the end point of a railway line from Semzy on the Moscow - Velikiye Luki  - Riga ( Latvia ) line that opened in 1933, was shut down again in 1995 and largely dismantled by 2004 after the transport of Lignite from the area around Nelidowo to the power plant via this route was dropped as a result of the cessation of mining there.

A narrow-gauge network that was used from 1977 to transport peat from a moorland 15 km to the east to the power station and to a peat briquette factory on the north-western edge of Osjorny was also shut down and dismantled in the 1990s because the power station was converted to lignite in 1988 (today also Natural gas ) and the briquette factory was closed in 1995.

The regional road 66K-15 runs through Osjorny, which leads from the federal highway M1 between Smolensk and Jarzewo via Duchowschtschina to the border of Tver Oblast and from there as 28K-0113 via Bely and Nelidowo to the federal highway M9 . There is a local road in the direction of the former railway line to Scharkowski.

Web links

• Official website of the municipality (Russian)

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)