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Ust-Kut ( Russian Усть-Ку́т ) is a city in the Russian Oblast Irkutsk (southern Siberia) with 45,375 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located on the northern edge of the Lena Angara plateau about 510 km north of the oblast capital Irkutsk on the left bank of the Lena and its tributary Kuta . It extends in a narrow strip for 20 kilometers along these rivers.
The city of Ust-Kut is the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .
history
1631 erected Cossack under Ataman Ivan Galkin at the mouth of the time Kut said flow (of Evenki for peat moss , uncertain reason , according to the character of the river valley) in the Lena a ostrog and called it Ust-Kutski ( Kut-mouth ). In the second half of the 17th century the ostrog lost its military importance; However, the place became an important trading point, as the land route from Ilim reached the Lena here .
The mineral springs at the western end of the village, on the right bank of the Kuta, which have been used for balneological purposes since 1908 , are also said to have been discovered by Jerofei Khabarov as early as the 17th century . From 1925 a " health resort " was built at the springs .
Around 1900 Ust-Kut was also a place of political exile , for example for Leon Trotsky and his wife Alexandra Lvovna, whom he married for a common period of exile .
In 1951, the railway line from Taischet on the Trans-Siberian Railway via Bratsk , which was built in the late 1940s, reached the place that had already received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1943 . In 1954, the settlements of Ust-Kut and Ossetrowo, a few kilometers downstream on the Lena (urban-type settlement since the 1930s), were merged to form the town of Ust-Kut, and later other villages were incorporated, such as Karpovo upstream on the Kuta.
In 1958, the railway line to Ust-Kut, which had been re-routed over long distances due to the impending flooding of the Bratsk reservoir, was reopened, and in 1974 the construction of the actual Baikal-Amur mainline in the direction of the north bank of Lake Baikal , Tynda and Komsomolsk began from here with great propaganda effort on the Amur .
Population development
| year | Residents | Remarks |
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| 1939 | 7,283 | of which Ust-Kut 3,962, Ossetrowo 3,321 |
| 1959 | 21,343 | |
| 1970 | 33,197 | |
| 1979 | 49,647 | |
| 1989 | 61,165 | |
| 2002 | 49,951 | |
| 2010 | 45,375 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
There is a local museum in Ust-Kut.
Economy and Infrastructure
Ust-Kut is mainly important as a transport hub. The city's river port, Ossetrowo , is the transition point between road and rail traffic as well as river shipping on the Lena, which has one of its most important bases here. During the navigation period from Ust-Kut, the passenger ships also run downstream in the direction of Yakutsk or Tiksi .
There is a shipyard, a larger tank farm in the UstKutNeftegaz, which produces oil and natural gas in the region , as well as companies in the wood and food industries.
Ust-Kut is located on the Baikal-Amur mainline and has several train stations, including Ust-Kut and the actual main train station Lena in the district of Ossetrowo near the river port (route km 723 from Taischet). Below the city, at the Jakurim settlement , the railway line crosses the Lena on a nearly 500-meter-long bridge. Although it is located in the upper part of the middle reaches, this is the last bridge over the Lena to its mouth.
Ust-Kut is connected to the Russian road network via the regional road R419 from Tulun via Bratsk. To the northeast of the city, the road ends after a few kilometers along the Lena. In an easterly direction, a further unpaved road leads along the route of the Baikal-Amur main road after it has crossed the Lena in Ust-Kut.
The city has an airport ( IATA airport code UKX ), which Angara Airlines and IrAir fly to from Irkutsk several times a week (as of 2014) .
sons and daughters of the town
- Jelena Sadoroschnaja (* 1977), track and field athlete
Web links
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 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
