Sol-Ilezk

city Sol-Ilezk Соль-Илецк flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Orenburg Rajon Sol-Ilezk Founded 1754 City since 1865 surface 65  km² population 28,377 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 437 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 125  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35336 Post Code 46150x License Plate 56 OKATO 53 425 Website solileck.ru Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 10 ′  N , 54 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 54 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Orenburg Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Sol-Ilezk ( Russian Соль-Илецк ) is a medium -sized town and a health resort with 28,377 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Russian region of Orenburg . It lies between the southern Urals and the Kazakh border (the latter is around 50 km from the city), around 70 km south of the regional capital, Orenburg .

population

The majority of the population in Sol-Ilezk in 2010 were Russians with 63.8%, Kazakhs 17.5%, Tatars 10.1% and Ukrainians 3.4%. There is also a minority of German descent with 1.6% - which shrank in the 1990s due to emigration.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	11,768
1939	15,019
1959	21,614
1970	22,277
1979	21,674
1989	23,836
2002	26,883
2010	28,377

Note: census data

Attractions

Sol-Ilezk is known in central Russia because of the Raswal salt lake (also known as Soljonka ) not far from the city, the water of which is denser than the human body. Thanks to the lake there has been a growing tourism, especially in recent years. The city also got its name from the salt (Russian: Sol). The only other sights are the Orthodox Church and the typical Russian monument to World War II .

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  Sol-Ilezk, Memorial to World War II

economy

In addition to tourism and salt extraction from the lake, the most important economic sectors for the city are agriculture (especially melon and watermelon cultivation). Jelena Baturina , building contractor and wife of the dismissed Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov , has invested in the tourist infrastructure since 2002 with the aim of developing Sol-Ilezk into a luxury health resort.

Personalities

• Alexei Fedorschenko (* 1966), film director, born in Sol-Ilezk
• Carola Neher , a German actress who was sentenced to ten years in prison during the Great Terror and who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union, died of typhus in a Gulag camp in Sol-Ilezk in 1942

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

• History of Sol-Ilezk (Russian)
• More information about travel, medical tourism (Russian)
• Sol-Ilezk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Spa town Sol-Ilezk (Russian)