Tashtagol

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city
Tashtagol
Таштагол
coat of arms
coat of arms
Federal district Siberia
Oblast Kemerovo
Rajon Tashtagol
mayor Vladimir Makuta
Founded 1939
City since 1963
surface 80  km²
population 23,134 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density 289 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center 440  m
Time zone UTC + 7
Telephone code (+7) 38473
Post Code 652990-652993
License Plate 42, 142
OKATO 32 443
Website www.ako.ru/tashtagol
Geographical location
Coordinates 52 ° 46 '  N , 87 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 46 '0 "  N , 87 ° 51' 0"  E
Tashtagol (Russia)
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Situation in Russia
Tashtagol (Kemerovo Oblast)
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Location in Kemerovo Oblast
List of cities in Russia

Tashtagol ( Russian Таштагол ) is a city in Kemerovo Oblast ( Russia ) with 23,134 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the mountainous region south of the Kuzbass , about 150 km south of Novokuznetsk , on the Kondoma River, named after the people of the Schoren Bergschorien ( Gornaja Schoria ) . The climate is continental.

The city of Tashtagol is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

Tashtagol has been connected to Novokuznetsk since 1940 by a railway line and a parallel road via Kaltan and Ossinniki .

history

Taschtagol was established in 1939 as a settlement near the iron ore mine there . The place name is derived from the Turkish - Mongolian words for stony valley or gorge . In 1963 the place received city rights.

Population development

year Residents
1959 17,067
1970 25,142
1979 24,437
1989 26,274
2002 23,363
2010 23,134

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In Tashagol there is a municipal museum of local history with an attached museum for ethnography and nature mountain chorias (Музей этнографии и природы Горной Шории).

economy

The iron ore mining for the steel works of the Kuzbass determines the economy of Tashtagol and the surrounding area. There are also companies in the building materials industry.

sons and daughters of the town

See also

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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