Syssert

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city
Syssert
Сысерть
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Federal district Ural
Oblast Sverdlovsk
Urban district Syssert
Founded 1732
City since 1946
surface 20  km²
population 20,465 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density 1023 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center 240  m
Time zone UTC + 5
Telephone code (+7) 34374
Post Code 624021, 624022
License Plate 66, 96, 196
OKATO 65 241 501
Website sysert.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates 56 ° 30 ′  N , 60 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 56 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  N , 60 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E
Syssert (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Syssert (Sverdlovsk Oblast)
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Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast
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
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

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

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