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Taischet ( Russian Тайшет ; also Tajschet , scientific transliteration Tajšet ) is a Russian city with 35,485 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Irkutsk Oblast , Siberia .
history
General
Taischet arose after 1897 from a construction base and stop of the Trans-Siberian Railway at kilometer 4515, about 680 km northwest of Irkutsk and about 400 km east of Krasnoyarsk ; the town was granted town charter in 1938.
Between the 1930s and 1950s, Taischet Gulag was the headquarters of the OserLag special camp and the Angarstroi facility. It was from here that the construction of the first section of the Baikal-Amur highway was controlled. From Taischet to Bratsk an der Angara , according to prisoner traditions, there is “at least one dead person under every threshold”. In addition to Japanese prisoners from the former Kwantung Army , the Germans in particular provided a large contingent of forced laborers who were usually sentenced to 25 years in a camp. In the autumn of 1955, the survivors were collected by them in Taischet and prepared for their journey home after Adenauer's visit to Moscow .
Old station building
Water tower at the train station
Buildings in the northern part of the city
Weapons exhibited in front of the local museum
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1939 | 21,087 |
| 1959 | 33,499 |
| 1970 | 34,232 |
| 1979 | 38,249 |
| 1989 | 42,391 |
| 2002 | 38,535 |
| 2010 | 35,485 |
Note: census data
railroad
In the station of Taishet, flows coming from the west, the Südsibirische railway in the Trans-Siberian Railway . In addition, the Baikal-Amur Magistrale, which leads east, begins here .
Personalities
- Wladilen Stepanowitsch Letochow (1939–2009), Russian physicist, born in Taischet
- Paul Mintz (1868–1941), Latvian lawyer and politician, died in the prison camp in Taischet
- Ernst Tschickert (1889–1951), German resistance fighter, victim of Stalinism, died in a prison camp
- Helmuth Brückner (1896–1951), homosexual National Socialist, exiled by Hitler in 1934 as Upper President and Gauleiter in Silesia; died in Ozernyj camp in Tayshet
Web links
- Unofficial portal of the city (Russian)
- Tayshet Raion Official Website (Russian)
- Taischet on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line
