Ust-Kamchatsk

settlement Ust-Kamchatsk Усть-Камчатск coat of arms Federal district far East region Kamchatka Rajon Ust-Kamchatsky head Alexander Tikhomirov Founded 1731 Earlier names Ust-Primorski (until 1890) Settlement since 2008 population 4,352 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 2  m Time zone UTC + 12 Telephone code (+7) 41534 Post Code 684412-684415 License Plate 41 OKATO 30 219 000 001 Website ustkamchatsk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 14 '  N , 162 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 14 '0 "  N , 162 ° 32' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Kamchatka Region

Ust-Kamchatka ( Russian Усть-Камчатск ) is a settlement in the Kamchatka region ( Russia ) with 4,352 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located on the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula , on the Kamchatka Bay of the Pacific Ocean , about 430 kilometers as the crow flies northeast of the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky regional administrative center . It is located on the left bank of the Kamchatka River , on the lagoon that connects the mouth of the river with the northeastern Nerpichye Lake and which is separated from the open sea by a narrow spit .

Ust-Kamchatsk is the administrative center of the Rajons Ust-Kamchatsky and seat of the rural community of Ust-Kamtschatskoje selskoje posselenije, to which even the 12 village Krutoberjogowo km to the east on the eastern shore of Lake Nerpitschje belongs.

history

The place was founded in 1731 as the port of Ust-Primorsky, but it was long in the shadow of the 30 km upstream Nizhnekamtschatsk, which even received city rights at the end of the 18th century, but was completely abandoned in 1968 after a gradual decline. Ust-Primorsky was renamed Ust-Kamchatsk in 1890 (from Russian ustje for 'mouth', referring to the Kamchatka River).

Initially, the settlement was on the right bank of the river. Industrial fish processing began in the 1920s, and in 1926 the construction of a new district on the left bank of the river began, from which the present-day town developed. In 1951 the place was given urban-type settlement status, and the old part of the place on the right bank of the river was finally abandoned in the 1970s. As part of an administrative reform, Ust-Kamchatsk, whose population had fallen by around 70% in the previous three decades, was downgraded to a (rural) settlement in 2008.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1,819
1959	9,941
1970	11,433
1979	16,326
1989	13,611
2002	5,231
2010	4,352

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Ust-Kamchatka is one of the fishing and processing centers on the east coast of Kamchatka. There are also companies in the timber industry.

Road connection exists via the approximately 740 km long R474 road, which leads through the central valley from Kamchatka to the regional administrative center of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The section from Ust-Kamchatsk to Klyuchi , 100 km to the west, makes a major northerly detour via the Vostochny ridge, past the extremely active Schiwelutsch volcano , as the direct route through the very narrow and wider in the area of ​​the breakthrough through the Vostotschny ridge Above the strongly marshy valley of the Kamchatka was not possible. This part of the road has been passable since 2008, as the last of the route driven from Milkowo in a northerly direction since 1973 with interruptions.

About 10 km east of the settlement is the small Ust-Kamchatsk airport ( ICAO code UHPK ) near Krutoberjogowo , from which there is a connection to the regional center.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi VPN-2010. Administrativno-territorialʹnoe delenie kraja. (Results of the 2010 census. Administrative-territorial division of the region.) Table 2 (Download from the website of the Territorial Organ of the Kamchatka Region of the Federal Service of State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ust-Kamchatsk on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)

Web links

• Official website of the local government (Russian)