Tavda
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Tavda
Tavda
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List of cities in Russia |
Tawda ( Russian Тавда ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 35,421 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the west of the West Siberian lowlands , about 360 km northeast of the Oblast capital Yekaterinburg on the right bank of the river Tawda , a left tributary of the Tobol in the Ob river system .
Tawda is the center of the urban district of the same name .
The city was reached in 1916 by a railway line from Yekaterinburg via Yegorschino (now Artyomovsky ). In 1969 the route was extended 185 km to Meschduretschenski ( Ustye-Acha station ).
history
Tawda was founded in 1910 as a forest workers' settlement, which was chosen as the end point for a railway line opened in 1916, and received city rights on July 20, 1937.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 25.186 |
1959 | 47,954 |
1970 | 47,434 |
1979 | 46,386 |
1989 | 45,735 |
2002 | 40,686 |
2010 | 35,421 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
There is a museum of the wood and wood processing industry in Tavda . Tawda is also a balneological health resort , based on 42 ° C warm healing water , which comes to light 2.5 kilometers from the city center.
economy
Tavda is an important center of the timber industry and wood processing industry ( plywood , hydrolysis of wood-based). There is also a plant for timber transport trailers and a river shipyard.
sons and daughters of the town
- Natalja Khrushchelyova (* 1973), track and field athlete
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
- Place Announcements Tawda (Russian)
- Unofficial city portal (Russian)
- Tawda on mojgorod.ru (Russian)