Slyudyanka

city Slyudyanka Слюдянка coat of arms Federal district Siberia Oblast Irkutsk Rajon Slyudyanka Founded 1905 City since 1936 surface 40  km² population 18,574 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 464 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 470  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 39544 Post Code 665900-665904 License Plate 38, 85, 138 OKATO 25 234 501 Website www.sludyanka.ru Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 40 ′  N , 103 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  N , 103 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Irkutsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Slyudyanka ( Russian Слюдянка ) is a city in the Irkutsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 18,574 inhabitants (October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the south bank of Lake Baikal , north of the Khamar-Daban , about 125 km south of the Oblast capital Irkutsk .

The city of Slyudyanka is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

Slyudyanka is on the Trans-Siberian Railway . There are two stations here, Slyudyanka-II (km 5306 from Moscow , branch of the old Baikal Railway ) and Slyudyanka -I (km 5311). The city is also on the M55 Irkutsk - Chita road .

history

When the mining of mica began on the southwest bank of the Baikal in the 17th century, the first small settlements arose here. The mica, Russian sljuda , also gave the opening out here in the lake river Slyudyanka the name.

When the Baikal Railway (also called Baikal Circular Railway) was completed in 1905 as the last section of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the station and the new settlement belonging to it were given the same name.

In 1936 the place received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	12,380
1959	21,388
1970	20,639
1979	19,804
1989	19,872
2002	19,118
2010	18,574

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Slyudyanka-I station building with marble cladding

Slyudyanka is the tourist center for the southwestern part of Lake Baikal, the starting point for visiting the western Khamar-Daban and the southeastern part of Eastern Sayan, as well as the old Baikal Railway, which branches off from today's Trans-Siberian route at the nearby settlement of Kultuk in the direction of Port Baikal / Listvyanka represents an important engineering monument.

In the village there is the Mineralogical Museum of Baikal Gemstones ( Samozwety Baikala ).

economy

In Slyudyanka there are several companies in the building materials industry (cement raw materials, etc.), as well as a fish factory and railway companies. Mica and marble are mined in the mountains south of the village .

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 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

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

• City administration website (Russian)
• Slyudyanka on mojgorod.ru (Russian)