Ushur

city Ushur Uzhur flag coat of arms Federal district Siberia region Krasnoyarsk Rajon Ushur Founded 1760 City since 1953 surface 22  km² population 16,093 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 732 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 380  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 39156 Post Code 662250-662255 License Plate 24, 84, 88, 124 OKATO 04 256 501 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 19 ′  N , 89 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  N , 89 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Krasnoyarsk Territory

List of cities in Russia

Ushur ( Russian Ужур ) is a city in the Krasnoyarsk region ( Russia ) with 16,093 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city lies on the southern edge of Nasarowoer sink in the so-called "Uschurer gate" between the northeastern foothills of the Kuznetsk Alatau and the further northeast trending Solgonrücken , about 300 kilometers southwest of the regional capital of Krasnoyarsk .

Ushur is the administrative center of the Ushur Rajon of the same name .

There is a weather station in Ushur.

history

The place was in 1760 as chaka Maltese village Uschurskoje founded, named after the flowing here Bach Uzhur (also Uschurka ) in the catchment area of Whether -Nebenflusses Chulym . In 1822 he became the administrative center of a Volost (about rural community) of the Okrug (district) Achinsk of the then Yenisisk Governorate .

In 1914 construction began on the Achinsk - Abakan railway line running through the village , which was provisionally completed during the First World War , but not finally until the 1920s due to delays and destruction in the Russian Civil War .

1953 Ushur received city status. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the population has fallen sharply.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	14,114
1959	23,511
1970	24,533
1979	28,604
1989	28,376
2002	17,252
2010	16.093

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The Rajon Museum of Local History is located in the village of Slatorunovsk, a good 20 kilometers south. Not far southwest of this village is the small spa town of Utschum on the salt lake of the same name .

Economy and Infrastructure

In Ushur, as the center of an agricultural area, there are companies in the food industry.

It is located on the railway line Atschinsk-Abakan (kilometer 154) and the regional road R412 which the east extending highway M54 Krasnojarsk Abakan- Kysyl - Mongolian border with the mining town Sharypovo connects.

When about five kilometers southwest to " closed city " Solnetschny (formerly codenamed Uzhur-4 ) are intercontinental ballistic missiles of the type -18 SS "Satan" of the Strategic Rocket Forces of Russia stationed.

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

• Basic data on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Brief profile of the city on the website of the Administration of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Russian)