Salary

This article covers the city of Salair; for the low mountain range of the same name see Salairrücke .

city Salair Салаир Federal district Siberia Oblast Kemerovo Urban district Guryevsk Founded 1626 City since 1941 surface 40  km² population 8,262 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 207 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 340  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38463 Post Code 652770 License Plate 42, 142 OKATO 32 413 504 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 14 '  N , 85 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 14 '0 "  N , 85 ° 47' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Kemerovo Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Salair ( Russian Салаир ) is a small town in the Kemerovo Oblast ( Russia ) with 8,262 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the west of the central part of the Kuzbass or on the eastern flank of the Salair ridge , about 200 km southwest of the oblast capital Kemerovo and 40 km southwest of Belove on the river Maly Batschat . The climate is continental.

The city of Salair is administratively subordinate to the city of Guryevsk .

Salair is connected to Guryevsk and Belovo on the Yurga (or Novosibirsk ) - Novokuznetsk route via a railway line (freight only) .

history

In 1626 the village of Salairskoje (Салаирское, also Салаирка / Salairka) was founded. Silver ores were discovered here at the end of the 18th century, and mining began in the 1780s. As a result, a mining settlement emerged. In 1941 the place was given city rights under its current name.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	21,997
1959	17,477
1970	13,568
1979	11,254
1989	11,452
2002	9,472
2010	8,262

Note: census data

economy

Today, the former silver mine and the associated metallurgical plant (Салаирский горно-обогатительный комбинат / Salairski gorno-obogatitelny Kombinat) mainly produce barite concentrates .

See also

• List of cities in Kemerovo Oblast

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

• Salair on mojgorod.ru (Russian)