Uglegorsk (Sakhalin)

city Uglegorsk Углегорск coat of arms Federal district far East Oblast Sakhalin Rajon Uglegorsk Founded Early 20th century City since 1946 surface 26  km² population 10,381 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 399 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 20  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 42432 Post Code 694920, 694923 License Plate 65 OKATO 64 435 Geographical location Coordinates 49 ° 4 '  N , 142 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 4 '0 "  N , 142 ° 2' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Sakhalin Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Uglegorsk ( Russian Углегорск ) is a city in Sakhalin Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,381 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the west coast of Sakhalin Island , about 350 km northwest of the Oblast capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk , on the Tatar Sound between the Sea of Japan and the Sea of ​​Okhotsk , on the edge of the swampy lowland of the Uglegorka River near its mouth.

The city of Uglegorsk is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

Uglegorsk has a small seaport.

history

Uglegorsk came into being after 1905, while the southern part of the island Sakhalin (up to the 50th parallel ) belonged to Japan , under the name Esutoru ( Japanese 恵 須 取 町 , - chō ). As a result of the Second World War , the place came to the Soviet Union in 1945 and received city ​​rights in 1946 under its current name - from Russian ugol for coal .

Population development

year	Residents
1937	31,959
1959	17,852
1970	17,921
1979	18,429
1989	18,402
2002	13,396
2010	10,381

Note: census data

economy

In Uglegorsk there are companies in the wood, paper and construction industries as well as the food industry. The place is the center of an agricultural area (potato and vegetable cultivation). Nearby is hard coal promoted, which gave the city its name.

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

Commons : Uglegorsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Uglegorsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)