Poronaisk

city Poronaisk Poronaysk flag coat of arms Federal district far East Oblast Sakhalin Rajon Poronaisk Founded 1869 City since 1946 surface 55  km² population 16,120 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 293 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 10  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 42431 Post Code 694240-694242 License Plate 65 OKATO 64 430 Geographical location Coordinates 49 ° 13 '  N , 143 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 13 '0 "  N , 143 ° 6' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Sakhalin Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Poronaisk ( Russian Поронайск ) is a city in Sakhalin Oblast ( Russia ) with 16,120 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the east coast of the Sakhalin Island , about 290 km north of the oblast capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk , on the Terpenia Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk at the mouth of the Poronai River .

The city of Poronaisk is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

Poronaisk is located on the narrow-gauge main railway line (1067 mm) of the island of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Nogliki and the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Alexandrowsk-Sakhalinsky highway . The city has a small seaport and an airport .

history

The Russian Tichmenev Post ( Тихменевский пост / Tichmenewski post) was established in 1869 on the territory of today's Poronaisk in the immediate vicinity of old Ainu and Niwchen settlements .

From 1905 to 1945 the place belonged to the Treaty of Portsmouth , which ended the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905, like the entire southern part of the island (up to the 50th parallel) as Shikuka ( Japanese 敷 香 町 , - machi ; also しす か ち ょ う , Shisuka (-chō) ) to Japan. As a result of the Second World War , the place came back to the Soviet Union and was given its current name in 1946 after the river ( Ainu poro nai for large or wide river ).

Population development

year	Residents
1941	30,310
1959	21,570
1970	23,610
1979	24,669
1989	25,971
2002	17,954
2010	16,120

Note: census data

economy

In Poronaisk there is a paper mill as well as construction, timber and fish industries. Nearby, at the urban-type Wachrushev , the Lermontovsky open-cast mine is producing hard coal , which is used to operate the Sakhalin thermal power station ( Сахалинская ГРЭС / Sachalinskaja GRES).

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)

Web links

Commons : Poronaisk  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Poronaisk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)