Salihorsk

Salihorsk | Soligorsk

Салігорск | Солигорск

( Belarus. ) | ( Russian )

coat of arms

flag

State :

Belarus

Woblasz :

Minsk

Coordinates :

52 ° 47 ' N , 27 ° 32' E Coordinates: 52 ° 47 ' N , 27 ° 32' E

Height :

153 m

Area :

9.19 km²

Residents :

101,000 (2009)

Population density :

10,990 inhabitants per km²

Time zone :

Moscow time ( UTC + 3 )

Telephone code :

(+375) 174

Postal code :

BY - 223710

License plate :

5

Website :

www.soligorsk-city.com

Salihorsk

Salihorsk or Soligorsk ( Belarusian Салігорск / Salihorsk ; Russian Солигорск / Soligorsk ) is a city in Belarus in the south of the Minskaya Woblasz . The city now has 101,937 inhabitants (2006) and is one of the fastest growing cities in the country. Internet critic Evgeny Morozov is one of the most internationally known personalities who grew up in Salihorsk .

History and population

town hall

Lenin Street

Salihorsk was founded in 1958 for the purpose of mining. “Almost the entire workforce came from outside the country at the time, so there was hardly any such thing as a national feeling,” Evgeny Morozov recalls. As a planned town , Salihorsk was built south of Slutsk on the north bank of the dammed river Slutsch . The city grew continuously; in 1979 it had 65,148 inhabitants and became Belarus' smallest city in the early 1990s.

coat of arms

Description: The coat of arms is split and has a golden ear of corn at the front in blue at the split made of three grains and four awns and at the back are six oblique red bars in silver .

economy

The main basis of the economy are large deposits of potassium carbonate (= potash) - Salihorsk means salt mountain in German . Belaruskali, a company that was part of the state-owned Belneftekhim group until 2014 and is still state-owned, has its headquarters in the city . “In principle, the city is a huge state-owned company for potassium extraction, which is processed into artificial fertilizer and goes all over the world. It is still Belarus' most profitable company today, ”said Morozov.

traffic

There is a beginning in Salihorsk railroad to Slutsk and a highway running west passes by Salihorsk and the city with Slutsk in the north and Mikatschewitschy connects the south.

Sports

Salihorsk is home to the FK Shakhtsor Salihorsk football club and the HK Shakhtsor Salihorsk ice hockey club .

Town twinning

Armenia Agarak , Armenia

sons and daughters of the town

Aljaksandr Hlawazki (* 1970), long and triple jumper

Evgeny Morozov (* 1984), publicist

Maksim Schaunertschyk (* 1985), football player

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Big Data for Everyone. From the Internet euphoria to the reform of the electronic infrastructure . Translated from the English by Bernhard Schmid. In: Lettre International , No. 108, Spring 2015, pp. 48–55, p. 48. (first published in: New Left Review , No. 91, January / February 2015 with the title: "Socialize the Data Centers!" , freely available)
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[Morozov-1] Big Data for Everyone. From the Internet euphoria to the reform of the electronic infrastructure . Translated from the English by Bernhard Schmid. In: Lettre International , No. 108, Spring 2015, pp. 48–55, p. 48. (first published in: New Left Review , No. 91, January / February 2015 with the title: "Socialize the Data Centers!" , freely available)

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