Tashtagol
city
Tashtagol
Таштагол
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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 |
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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
- Sergej Newerow (* 1961), politician
- Andrei Sobolew (* 1989), snowboarder
- Natalja Sobolewa (* 1995), snowboarder
- Dmitri Sarsembajew (* 1997), snowboarder
- Kristina Paul (* 1998), snowboarder
See also
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
- Rajon Administration website (Russian)
- Tashtagol on mojgorod.ru (Russian)