Revda (Murmansk)

Urban-type settlement Rewda Ревда coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Murmansk Rajon Lowosero First mention 1950 population 8414 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 301  m Official language Russian Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81 538 Post Code 184580 License Plate 51 OKATO 47 210 554 Geographical location Coordinates 67 ° 56 '  N , 34 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 67 ° 56 '13 "  N , 34 ° 33' 33"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Murmansk Oblast

Rewda ( Russian Ревда ) is an urban-type settlement in Murmansk Oblast , in northwestern Russia , with 8,414 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

The settlement was founded in 1950 for the (main) extraction of loparite ores (e.g. for the extraction of tantalum or niobium ) and still lives mainly from mining . In addition, it often serves as a starting point for tours into the relatively untouched nature of the Lowosero tundra .

Near the village there is a transmitter of the Russian RSDN-20 - radio navigation system .

Population development

The following overview shows the development of the population of Revda.

year         Residents 1959 4,650 1970 4,524 1979 8,663 1989 13,820 2002 10,368 2010 8,414

Census data

people

The Sami writer and poet Askold Baschanow lived in Revda.

traffic

From Revda there is a bus connection to Olenegorsk and Murmansk as well as to Lowozero .

Since 1967, the settlement was the end of an industrial railway line that  branched off from the non-public Apatity - Kirovsk line near Kirovsk , which is just under 90 kilometers away . On the first third of the route, it used the route of the Kolabahn , which was not completed at the beginning of the 1950s, and continued along the east bank of Lake Umbosero to Rewda. There was never any passenger traffic on the route. In 2007 it was shut down and dismantled.

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  Rewda and the RSDN-20 transmitter (on the right in the background)

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  In the city

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 : Rewda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Unofficial site of Revda (Russian)