Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky
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Zheleznogorsk-ilimsky
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Zhelesnogorsk -Ilimski ( Russian Железногорск-Илимский ) is a city in Irkutsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 26,079 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the northwest of the Lena Angara Plateau , about 1200 km north of the Oblast capital Irkutsk, a few kilometers east of the Ilim , a right tributary of the Angara .
The city zheleznogorsk-ilimsky is the administrative center of the Rajons Nischneilimski (, Low-Ilim-Rajon ').
Zheleznogorsk-Ilimski is located on the Baikal-Amur main line ( Korschunicha-Angarskaya station ; 555 km from Taishet ) and the Bratsk - Ust-Kut highway .
history
In place of a settlement that may have existed since the 17th century, the Korschunicha miners' settlement was built from 1948 in connection with the start of the mining of the iron ore deposit on Mount Schelesnaja ( Eisenberg ) . It was named after the ore prospector Schestak Korschunow, who discovered the "Eisenberg" in the 17th century, like the small river that flows through the town and flows into the Ilim.
In the 1950s, with the construction and completion of the western section Taischet - Ust-Kut ( Lena ) of the later Baikal-Amur mainline and the start of large-scale iron mining, the place was given the status of urban-type settlement under the name Schelesnogorsk ("iron mining town") .
In 1965, when the ore enrichment factory was completed, the town received its town charter under its current name. The addition Ilimski , derived from the river name Ilim, serves to distinguish it from the city of Zhelesnogorsk in the Kursk Oblast (or today from Zelesnogorsk in the Krasnoyarsk region , which was only given this name later).
There is a partnership with the Japanese city of Sakata .
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1959 | 1,983 |
| 1970 | 22,179 |
| 1979 | 29,087 |
| 1989 | 32,326 |
| 2002 | 29.093 |
| 2010 | 26,079 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
There has been a history and art museum in the city since 1980 , named after the rocket designer Michail Jangel, who was born nearby .
economy
The town is formed by the iron ore mines and the factory for the production of iron ore concentrate , which belong to the Mechel AG. There is also a heating plant and companies in the food industry.
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 web portal (Russian)
- Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
