Ust-Luga

Federal district	Northwest Russia
Oblast	Leningrad
Rajon	Kingissepp
First mention	1676
Earlier names	Ostrow
population	2173 inhabitants ; (as of 2007)
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 81375
Post Code	188471, 188472
License Plate	47
OKATO	41 221 828 001
Geographical location
Coordinates	59 ° 40 ' N , 28 ° 17' E Coordinates: 59 ° 39 '55 " N , 28 ° 16' 50" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Leningrad Oblast

Ust-Luga ( Russian Усть-Луга , Finnish Laukaansuu ) is a rural settlement (possjolok) with 2173 inhabitants (2007 calculation) in Russia . It lies at the mouth of the river Luga in the Lugabucht the Baltic Sea , near the border with Estonia . The name is derived from the Russian word ustje for mouth .

geography

Ust-Luga belongs to the Kingisepp district of Leningrad Oblast and is located about 100 km west of Saint Petersburg . The settlement is the seat of the rural community Ust-Luschskoje selskoje posselenije , which includes, in addition to Ust-Luga, the ten villages of Gakkowo, Kaibolowo, Kirjamo, Konnowo, Krakolje, Lipowo, Luschizy, Meschniki, Tiskolowo and Wybje, as well as the three settlements near Preurgolowo belong to the Ust-Luga train station. The total number of inhabitants of the municipality is 2835 (October 14, 2010).

history

The place was first mentioned in 1676 on a Swedish map from 1676 as Ostroff Hoff , from Russian Ostrow ("island"). This name was in use until the 20th century. In the 19th century the village was mentioned as an Ischoric settlement with the Ischoric / Finnish name Laukaansuu .

economy

The seaport of the same name, which is mostly ice-free , is located near Ust-Luga , with a ferry connection for rail, car and passenger traffic between the Russian heartland, the Kaliningrad Oblast ( Baltijsk ferry terminal ); as German ports, Kiel and, since June 8, 2012, also the ferry port Sassnitz on Rügen are called regularly .

A container terminal built by NCC and Eurogate has been in operation since 2011 . An export terminal for up to 28 million barrels of crude oil was completed in 2012 . This new port is designed to withdraw cargo from the port in Tallinn in Estonia .

By 2024, new sea terminals for the handling of mineral fertilizers, coal, grain and general cargo with a total weight of almost 42 million tons will be built.

Rosterminalugol

From 2001, with the completion of the first stage of the coal terminal, the expansion into an export port for Russian raw materials began.

Web links

Website of the seaport company Ust-Luga (Russian, English)

Individual evidence

↑ ( 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))
↑ Ust-Luga Container Terminal: UST-LUGA CONTAINER TERMINAL. ulct.ru, accessed December 5, 2015 .
↑ FAZ of August 30, 2010, page 15: Large construction site on the Baltic Sea
↑ Capacity of Russia's seaports to grow by over 300 mln tons by 2024. In: Interfax. August 6, 2020, accessed on August 7, 2020 .

[1] ( 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))

[2] Ust-Luga Container Terminal: UST-LUGA CONTAINER TERMINAL. ulct.ru, accessed December 5, 2015 .

[3] FAZ of August 30, 2010, page 15: Large construction site on the Baltic Sea

[4] Capacity of Russia's seaports to grow by over 300 mln tons by 2024. In: Interfax. August 6, 2020, accessed on August 7, 2020 .