Poronaisk
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Poronaisk
Poronaysk
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List of cities in Russia |
Poronaisk ( Russian Поронайск ) is a city in Sakhalin Oblast ( Russia ) with 16,120 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located on the east coast of the Sakhalin Island , about 290 km north of the oblast capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk , on the Terpenia Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk at the mouth of the Poronai River .
The city of Poronaisk is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .
Poronaisk is located on the narrow-gauge main railway line (1067 mm) of the island of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Nogliki and the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Alexandrowsk-Sakhalinsky highway . The city has a small seaport and an airport .
history
The Russian Tichmenev Post ( Тихменевский пост / Tichmenewski post) was established in 1869 on the territory of today's Poronaisk in the immediate vicinity of old Ainu and Niwchen settlements .
From 1905 to 1945 the place belonged to the Treaty of Portsmouth , which ended the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, like the entire southern part of the island (up to the 50th parallel) as Shikuka ( Japanese 敷 香 町 , - machi ; also しす か ち ょ う , Shisuka (-chō) ) to Japan. As a result of the Second World War , the place came back to the Soviet Union and was given its current name in 1946 after the river ( Ainu poro nai for large or wide river ).
Population development
year | Residents |
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1941 | 30,310 |
1959 | 21,570 |
1970 | 23,610 |
1979 | 24,669 |
1989 | 25,971 |
2002 | 17,954 |
2010 | 16,120 |
Note: census data
economy
In Poronaisk there is a paper mill as well as construction, timber and fish industries. Nearby, at the urban-type Wachrushev , the Lermontovsky open-cast mine is producing hard coal , which is used to operate the Sakhalin thermal power station ( Сахалинская ГРЭС / Sachalinskaja GRES).
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
- Poronaisk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)