Usolye-Sibirskoye

city Usolye-Sibirskoye Усолье-Сибирское flag coat of arms Federal district Siberia Oblast Irkutsk Urban district Usolye-Sibirskoye mayor Anatoli Kruschinski Founded 1669 Earlier names Ussolje (until 1940) City since 1925 surface 75  km² population 83,327 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1111 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 440  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 39543 Post Code 665450-665467 License Plate 38, 85, 138 OKATO 25 436 Website www.usolie-sibirskoe.ru Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 45 ′  N , 103 ° 39 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 103 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Irkutsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Ussolje-Sibirskoje ( Russian Усо́лье-Сиби́рское ) is a city in the East Siberian Irkutsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 83,327 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the edge of the northern foothills of the Eastern Sayan on the left bank of the Angara , near the city ​​of Angarsk, about 75 kilometers to the north-west of the oblast capital, Irkutsk .

Usolye-sibirskoye is the administrative center of the Rajons Ussolje .

history

The place was founded in 1669 under the name Ussolje as one of the oldest Russian settlements in the Angara region by the Cossack brothers Michaljow, who discovered a salty spring here and began to boil salt . This is also what the toponym refers to: sol stands for salt in Russian ; ussolje is a - now outdated - name for places where salt occurs or is boiled.

In the 18th century the Moscow tract and at the end of the 19th century the Trans-Siberian Railway ran through the town.

In 1925 city charter was granted. When the town of the same name Ussolje in the Kama region also received town charter in 1940, the Siberian Ussolje (literal translation) was renamed to Ussolje-Sibirskoje to avoid confusion .

From 1947 to 1953 there was a prison camp in Usolye-Sibirskoye in the Gulag system .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	3,000
1926	8,000
1939	20,124
1959	48,494
1970	86,747
1979	103.036
1989	106,496
2002	90.161
2010	83,327

Note: census data (rounded up to 1926)

Culture and sights

In the city there is a museum about the history of salt mining in Siberia.

Economy and Infrastructure

A street in the city center (in the middle of which you can see a tram line under construction)

Since the start of underground mining in 1956, Usolye has developed into Russia's largest table salt supplier. Several chemical plants, such as Ussoljechimprom, were also built on the basis of salt mining . There are also mechanical engineering companies ( Ussolmasch , for mining equipment), the wood processing, light and food industries.

Usolje-Sibirskoje is a station on the Trans-Siberian Railway (route kilometers 5117 from Moscow ). The M53 trunk road from Novosibirsk via Krasnoyarsk to Irkutsk, part of the Trans-Siberian road connection , also runs through the city .

Part of the city 's public transport is carried out by the Usolye-Sibirskoye tram .

sons and daughters of the town

• Jelisaveta Bagrjanzewa (1929–1996), athlete (discus throw)
• Nadeschda Tschischowa (* 1945), track and field athlete and Olympic champion ( shot put )
• Dmitri Apanassenko (* 1967), water polo player
• Albert Pakejew (* 1968), boxer
• Natalja Iwanowa (* 1971), Taekwondoin
• Eduard Chrennikow (* 1973), ski orienteer
• Alexei Krivchenkov (* 1974), ice hockey player

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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line
2. ↑ Ussolje-Sibirskoje on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.
3. ↑ Dmitry Apanasenko in the database of Sports-Reference (English)

Web links

Commons : Usolye-Sibirskoje  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Ussolje-Sibirskoje on mojgorod.ru (Russian)