Plastic

This article explains the city in Russia. For the meaning of "synthetic polymer" see under plastic , for the abbreviation PLAST see planning information for city streets .

city Plast Пласт flag coat of arms Federal district Ural Oblast Chelyabinsk Rajon Plastic mayor Alexander Seredin Founded 19th century City since 1940 surface 87  km² population 17,342 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 199 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 300  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35160 Post Code 457020-457024 License Plate 74, 174 OKATO 75 445 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 22 ′  N , 60 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  N , 60 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Chelyabinsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Plast ( Russian Пласт ) is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 17,342 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Southern Urals about 130 km southwest of the Oblast capital, Chelyabinsk .

Plast is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

history

In the middle of the 19th century, a gold prospecting settlement emerged on the site of the present city , when a thick layer of gold-bearing sand was discovered here, which was called Bolshoi plast ( large seam ).

On October 7, 1940, the miners' settlements of Plast (in place of the former Kotschkar gold mines ), Novotroizk (Novo-Troizkoje) , Ptschelnik , Wysselki , Aul and others merged to form the town of Plast.

Population development

year	Residents	comment
1939	31,144	of which Plast 24,128, Novo-Troitskoye 7,016 (merged in 1940)
1959	25,897
1970	22,746
1979	19,271
1989	18,880
2002	17,422
2010	17,342

Note: census data

economy

Plast has been the center of gold mining in the Southern Urals since the 1860s. Marble , kaolin and talc are also extracted in the area. There is also timber industry.

sons and daughters of the town

• Natalja Gantimurowa (* 1991), Russian model

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

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

• Plast on mojgorod.ru (Russian)