Saosjorny

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city Zaozyorny Заозёрный flag coat of arms Federal district Siberia region Krasnoyarsk Rajon Rybnoye mayor Igor Kuprijenko Founded 1776 City since 1948 surface 58  km² population 10,681 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 184 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 39165 Post Code 663960, 663961 License Plate 24, 84, 88, 124 OKATO 04 247 501 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 58 '  N , 94 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 58 '0 "  N , 94 ° 43' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Krasnoyarsk Territory

List of cities in Russia

Saosjorny ( Russian Заозёрный ; also Saoserny ) is a city in the Krasnoyarsk region ( Russia ) with 10,681 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the northern edge of the Eastern Sayan , about 170 km east of the regional capital Krasnoyarsk , on the Barga , a small left tributary of the Kan, which in turn flows into the Yenisei .

The city of Saozjorny is the administrative center of Rybnoye district .

Saosjorny is on the Trans-Siberian Railway ( Saosjornaja station , route km 4264 from Moscow ). Freight traffic branches branch off here to the “ closed city ” of Zelenogorsk , located just under 20 kilometers to the northwest, and to the lignite opencast mines around Borodino, which extend to the southeast .

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history

Saosjorny was founded as Troitsko-Saosjornaja in August 1776 (from Russian Troiza for Trinity and sa oserom for behind the lake ). In 1934 the village was given the status of an urban-type settlement under the name Saosjorny, and in 1948 it was granted town status .

Population development

year	Residents
1864	725
1911	1,860
1939	9,152
1959	34,724
1970	27,216
1979	15,848
1989	15,714
2002	12,476
2010	10,681

Note: from 1939 census data

economy

In the city itself, the furniture, textile, building materials and food industries are the dominant economic sectors.

In the area between Saosjorny and Borodino, lignite is mined in opencast mines ( Irscha-Borodino of the Kansk coal basin ) , on the basis of which the nearby thermal power station Krasnoyarsk-2 (Russian: Krasnoyarskaya GRES-2 ) is operated.

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 : Saosjorny  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Saozjorny on the My Krasnoyarsk website (Russian)
• Saosjorny on mojgorod.ru (Russian)