Seversk

This article covers the location in Russia. For the city in Ukraine see Siversk .

city Seversk Северск flag coat of arms Federal district Siberia Oblast Tomsk Urban district Seversk mayor Nikolai Kuzmenko Founded 1949 City since 1956 surface 18  km² population 108,590 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 6033 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 90  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 3823 Post Code 636000-636071 License Plate 70 OKATO 69 541 Website www.seversknet.ru Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 36 '  N , 84 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 36 '0 "  N , 84 ° 51' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Tomsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Seversk ( Russian Се́верск ) is a closed city (SATO) with 108,590 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in Tomsk Oblast in Russia . It is located in Siberia on the right bank of the Tom River , 13 kilometers northwest of the Oblast capital Tomsk .

history

The Kurchatov -Straße in Seversk

The city was founded in 1949 on the occasion of the construction of the Tomsk nuclear facility . In Seversk, plutonium was produced for nuclear facilities and for nuclear weapons. Seversk, which was elevated to the status of a city in 1956, was initially only known as PO Box No. 5 (Russian: "Почто́вый я́щик № 5" ), later under the name Berjoski ( Берёзки , literally "birch" ) or Tomsk-7 . Only in 1989 was the existence of the previously secret city officially announced. However, the city still has the status of a closed city and can only be entered by non-residents with a pass.

On the territory of the city of Seversk, before its foundation, there were the villages of Iglakowo (founded in 1656) and Beloborodowo (founded at the beginning of the 18th century), whose inhabitants were then resettled.

Population development

year	Residents
1989	103,000
2002	109.106
2010	108,580

Note: census data (1989 rounded)

economy

The main employer of the city is now the chemical industry with the "Siberian Chemical Combine GP" (SCGP) with 15,000 to 20,000 employees. The nuclear facility is part of this combine. On April 6, 1993, there was a serious radioactive accident in which an SCGP tank with a highly radioactive solution exploded.

European nuclear waste

In October 2009, the film documentation Nightmare Nuclear Waste revealed that France has been storing part of its nuclear waste from the facilities of the Électricité de France (EDF) in Seversk since the 1990s . Almost 13 percent of French radioactive waste is here in open-air containers. Shortly afterwards it became public that the Urenco company between 1996 and 2008 delivered 27,300 tons of uranium hexafluoride from Gronau (Westphalia) by rail and is now being stored in the same way. Only a fraction of up to 15 percent was returned as fuel.

culture and education

Seversk has, among other things, two children's and youth theaters, a music theater, two cinemas, a museum, two libraries and an animal park. The city is also the seat of a branch of the Tomsk Polytechnic University .

sons and daughters of the town

• Lyubow Jegorowa (* 1966), cross-country skier, six-time Olympic champion (1992/94)
• Wera Nebolsina (* 1989), youth world champion in chess (2007)
• Margarita Alijtschuk (* 1990), gymnast and Olympic champion

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. ↑ Topic ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Arte 
3. ↑ Liberation : Nos déchets nucléaires sont cachés (October 12, 2009)
4. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ , October 13, 2009, Siegfried Forster, DLF: France dumps nuclear waste in Russia - Radiant Siberia ( Memento of October 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on October 26, 2010)
5. ↑ Markus Becker: Dispute about old uranium: nuclear waste disposal companies move from Siberia to Westphalia. In: Spiegel Online . October 14, 2009, accessed January 2, 2017 . 

Web links

Commons : Seversk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City website (Russian)
• Seversk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)