Snezhnogorsk (Krasnoyarsk)

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Urban-type settlement
Snezhnogorsk
Снежногорск
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Federal district Siberia
region Krasnoyarsk
Urban district Norilsk
First mention 1963
Urban-type settlement since 1964
population 887 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Time zone UTC + 7
Telephone code (+7) 39193
Post Code 663335
License Plate 24, 84, 88, 124
OKATO 04 429 557
Geographical location
Coordinates 68 ° 5 '  N , 87 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 68 ° 5 '24 "  N , 87 ° 46' 47"  E
Snezhnogorsk (Krasnoyarsk) (Russia)
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Situation in Russia
Snezhnogorsk (Krasnoyarsk) (Krasnoyarsk Territory)
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Location in the Krasnoyarsk Territory

Sneschnogorsk ( Russian Снежногорск ) is an urban-type settlement in the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia ( Russia ) with 887 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

Geographical location

Sneschnogorsk is located at the outflow of the Chantaika, which flows west to the Yenisei , from the Chantaika reservoir in the hill country that slopes down from there to the West Siberian lowlands . The settlement belongs to the Norilsk district . The distance to Norilsk to the north is about 160 km.

history

Snezhnogorsk was founded in 1963 as a settlement for the construction workers of the Ust-Khantaika hydropower plant located near the village in the main dam of the reservoir . Since 2004, Snezhnogorsk has been part of the Norilsk city district administratively.

Population development

year Residents
1970 9685
1979 2852
1989 2206
2002 1306
2010 887

Note: census data

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)

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