Zheleznogorsk (Kursk)
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Zheleznogorsk
Железногорск
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List of cities in Russia |
Zheleznogorsk ( Russian Железногорск , transliteration Železnogorsk translated City of Iron ) is a town in Kursk Oblast in southwestern Russia . It is located in the northern part of the Oblast, around 90 km northwest of the regional capital Kursk and directly on the border with the Oryol Oblast . The nearest city is Dmitrovsk in Oryol Oblast, around 20 km northwest of Zheleznogorsk.
With 95,049 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010), Schelesnogorsk is the second largest city in Kursk Oblast after Kursk.
history
Zhelesnogorsk was founded in the course of the development of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly , one of the largest iron ore deposits in the world, which began in 1950 . The city's date of birth is October 2, 1957, when construction of the first workers' residential area began here. Just three years later, the population of the settlement was around 2,000, and in 1962, when the place officially received city status, it was already over 9,000.
The place name, which Schelesnogorsk received when it was founded, literally means something like "Eisenstadt", which should underline the primary importance of the city for the extraction and processing of iron .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1959 | 1,897 |
1970 | 30,953 |
1979 | 65,280 |
1989 | 85.192 |
2002 | 95,528 |
2010 | 95,049 |
Note: census data
Town twinning
- Spremberg in Germany ( Brandenburg ) since April 29, 2016
Economy and Transport
Zheleznogorsk is one of the leading mining towns in the Kursk region. The most important company in the city is the Schelesnogorsk Iron Mining Combine MGOK , which was founded at the same time as the city and today, as part of the metallurgy holding Metalloinvest, is one of the leading Russian companies in iron ore mining and the iron processing industry. There are also a number of smaller factories in Zheleznogorsk , including the GOTEK packaging factory , a brickworks, and the food and textile industries.
The most important traffic connections from Schelesnogorsk are the railway line from Oryol (Orel) to Lgov and the nearby European route 93 or its Russian section known as the A142 .
sons and daughters of the town
- Alexander Pogorelow (* 1980), decathlete
- Ekaterina Volkova (* 1978), athlete
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 for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
Web links
- Official website of the city administration (Russian)
- Unofficial city portal (Russian)
- Zheleznogorsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)