Severny (Komi)

Urban-type settlement Severny Северный ( Russian ) Севернӧй ( Komi ) Federal district Northwest Russia republic Komi Urban district Vorkuta Founded 1941 Urban-type settlement since 1954 population 9023 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 82151 Post Code 169926 License Plate 11, 111 OKATO 87 410 569 Geographical location Coordinates 67 ° 36 '  N , 64 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 67 ° 36 '0 "  N , 64 ° 6' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Komi Republic

Severny ( Russian Се́верный ; Komi Севернӧй , Severnöj ) is an urban-type settlement in the Komi Republic in Russia with 9023 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 900 km as the crow flies northeast of the republic capital Syktywkar in the western foreland of the Polarurals . It is located not far from the left bank of the right Ussa tributary of Vorkuta .

Severny belongs to the Vorkuta district and is located about 12 km north of the city center.

history

The place was created in 1941/1942 at a Gulag penal camp and as a miners' settlement in the northern part of the coal mining area around Vorkuta, to which the name also refers ("Northern settlement"). There were mines No. 5 and No. 7, later combined to form the Shakhta Severnaya mine of the same name . In 1954 Severny received urban-type settlement status. As a result of the partial decline in coal mining, the population of the settlement, which is dominated by two-story buildings from the Stalin era and prefabricated buildings from the 1980s, has fallen by more than half since around 1990; The trend has slowed down - among other things due to the resettlement of some of the residents of the nearby, abandoned settlements of Zementnosawodski and Ayach-Yaga to Severny - but is continuing (as of 2019).

In the new Shakhta Severnaya ("Northern Mine") coal mine, which was put into operation a good two kilometers southwest of the settlement in 1969 - one of the largest in the area with an annual production of almost three million tons - there were initially three accidents from 2000 with a total of 17 Kill. After two more methane explosions on February 25 and 28, 2016 with a total of 36 deaths, the mine was shut down and the shafts and tunnels flooded, initially temporarily for seven years according to the original plans. The Vorkutinskaya TEZ-2 thermal power station on the right bank of the Vorkuta opposite the settlement is still in operation.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	15,175
1970	15,289
1979	17.172
1989	20,428
2002	12,028
2010	9,023

Note: census data

traffic

Severny is connected to Vorkuta and the surrounding settlements by road. There is city ​​bus traffic . The freight line built in the 1940s as part of the Pechora Railway runs past the settlement and runs from Vorkuta in an arc through the western part of the mining area, including the Worgaschor settlement . The station at Severny is called Ayach-Yaga.

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)
2. ↑ Severny on the Gorod Vorkuta website (Russian)
3. ↑ Report to the Russian-language service of the BBC from February 28, 2016 (Russian)
4. ↑ Message in Vedomosti of February 27, 2018 (Russian)