Shelechov
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Shelechov
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List of cities in Russia |
Schelechow ( Russian Шелехов ) is a city in Irkutsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 47,943 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located on the southern edge of the plain north of the Eastern Sayan , about 20 km southwest of the Oblast capital Irkutsk , on the Irkut River , a left tributary of the Angara .
The town of Schelechow is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .
Schelechow is on the Trans-Siberian Railway ( Gontscharowo station , 5204 km from Moscow ) and the M55 Irkutsk – Chita road .
history
Schelechow was built as a satellite town of Irkutsk in the early 1950s in connection with the construction of the Irkutsk aluminum plant . In 1956, the rapidly growing town became an urban-type settlement and was named after the navigator and entrepreneur Grigori Schelichow , albeit in a different, less common spelling of the family name. In 1962 city rights were granted.
Since 2005 there has been a city partnership with Nomi in Japan .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1959 | 13,044 |
1970 | 29,889 |
1979 | 40,561 |
1989 | 47,702 |
2002 | 47,520 |
2010 | 47,943 |
Note: census data
economy
The townscape is dominated by the aluminum plant , which today belongs to RUSAL, with an attached production of silicon ( SAO Kremni ) etc. There is also the cable manufacturer Irkutskkabel as well as companies in the woodworking and construction industries.
sons and daughters of the town
- Andrei Valeryevich Bashkirov (* 1970), ice hockey player
- Yevgeny Viktorovich Mitkov (* 1972), volleyball player
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 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
- City administration website (Russian)
- Shelechov on mojgorod.ru (Russian)