Syssert
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Syssert
Сысерть
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List of cities in Russia |
Syssert ( Russian Сысерть ) is a city in the Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 20,465 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located on the eastern edge of the Middle Urals , about 50 km south of the Oblast capital Yekaterinburg on the Syssert River , a right tributary of the Isset in the Ob river system .
Syssert is the administrative center of an urban district of the same name .
The city is the end point of a railway line from Yekaterinburg used for freight and suburban traffic .
history
Sysert arose in 1732 in connection with the construction of ironworks Nischnesyssertski Zavod , later simply Syssertski Sawod . The place was also called this until it was given its current name when the plant closed in 1932. In the Komi language, the name stands for narrow, wooded valley . In 1946 the place received city rights.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 10,400 |
1939 | 11,522 |
1959 | 19,606 |
1970 | 19,229 |
1979 | 21,365 |
1989 | 22,462 |
2002 | 22,152 |
2010 | 20,465 |
Note: Census data (1897 rounded)
Culture and sights
In the historic city center, the complex of the former ironworks from the 19th century has been preserved, as well as the Simeon and Anna Cathedral ( Собор Симеона и Анны / Sobor Simeona i Anny) from 1788 and a school building from 1735.
In Syssert there is a local history museum and a Baschow museum in the house where the writer was born.
Six kilometers northwest of the town is the small, 32-meter-deep Talkow Kamen lake , which fills a former talc quarry.
economy
In sysert are factories for hydraulic machinery ( Uralgidromasch ), electrical engineering, pipe elements and porcelain, as well as the timber industry established in the nearby settlement Dwuretschensk a work for chromium - titanium - and niobium - steel alloys .
Personalities
- Pawel Baschow (1879–1950), writer and folklorist
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- City administration website (Russian)
- Syssert on mojgorod.ru (Russian)