Salari

Urban-type settlement Salari Залари Federal district Siberia Oblast Irkutsk Rajon Salari First mention 1751 Urban-type settlement since 1957 population 9600 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 450  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 39552 Post Code 666320-666322 License Plate 38, 85, 138 OKATO 25 208 551 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 33 '  N , 102 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '0 "  N , 102 ° 30' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Irkutsk Oblast

Salari ( Russian Залари ) is an urban-type settlement in Irkutsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 9,600 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in southern Siberia in the foothills of the Eastern Sayan , about 200 kilometers northwest of the Oblast capital Irkutsk on the Salari river of the same name , which flows about 30 northwest into the gorge of the Bratsk reservoir on the Angara .

Salari has been the administrative center of the Salari Rajons of the same name since 1925 .

history

A village in the place of today's Salari has been known since 1751. It was created at the beginning of the 18th century in connection with the construction of the Moscow tract .

In 1899 the Trans-Siberian Railway passed immediately north of the town.

In 1957 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3,580
1959	11,945
1970	10,531
1979	10,747
1989	10,693
2002	10,041
2010	9,600

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Salari is the center of forestry and the wood processing industry. There is also a small machine factory (forestry equipment) and food processing companies.

The place has a train station on the Trans-Siberian Railway (km 4989 from Moscow ), where a freight connecting line branches off to Nowonukutski, 25 kilometers northeast .

The M53 trunk road from Novosibirsk via Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk, part of the Trans-Siberian road connection , also runs through Salari . The road follows the old Moscow wing on this section. In Salari, the regional road R420 branches off via Balagansk (on the left bank of the Bratsker reservoir, which is around 2.5 kilometers wide; car ferry) to Schigalowo, almost 300 kilometers away on the upper reaches of the Lena .

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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line

Web links

• Salari Raion on the Irkutsk Oblast Administration website (Russian)