Verkhnyaya Salda

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Verkhnyaya Salda
Верхняя Салда
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Federal district Ural
Oblast Sverdlovsk
Rajon Verkhnyaya Salda
head Sergei Nistratov
Founded 1778
City since 1938
surface 72  km²
population 46,221 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density 642 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center 200  m
Time zone UTC + 5
Telephone code (+7) 34345
Post Code 624760-624766
License Plate 66, 96, 196
OKATO 65 424
Geographical location
Coordinates 58 ° 3 '  N , 60 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 3 '0 "  N , 60 ° 33' 0"  E
Verkhnyaya Salda (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Verkhnyaya Salda (Sverdlovsk Oblast)
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Location in Sverdlovsk Oblast
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Verkhnyaya Salda ( Russian Верхняя Салда ) is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 46,221 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Urals , about 150 km north of the oblast capital Yekaterinburg and 35 km east of Nizhny Tagil , on the Salda River . The climate is continental.

The city of Verkhnyaya Salda is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

Verkhnyaya Salda is located on the railway line Nizhny Tagil - Alapayevsk, opened in 1912 .

history

Verkhnyaya Salda was created in 1778 in connection with the construction of an ironworks and foundry . On February 25, 1929, the place received the status of a work settlement and on December 24, 1938 city rights.

Population development

year Residents
1939 14,783
1959 37,255
1970 44,702
1979 54,652
1989 55,246
2002 51.195
2010 46.221

Note : census data

Culture, education and sights

The Arakow Culture House in Verkhnyaya Salda.

A faculty of the State Technical University of the Urals region (Yekaterinburg) is located in Verkhnyaya Salda .

economy

On the basis of the ironworks, the most important - and eponymous - plant for titanium and titanium alloys of the world's largest titanium producer VSMPO-AVISMA was built in Verkhnyaya Salda . In 2010 the Russian government established the "Titanium Valley" special economic zone.

There are also companies in the construction and food industries.

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)
  2. "It will be bad, but we will live!" , Novaya Gazeta, May 3, 2018; A detailed article on the titanium industry in Verkhnyaya Salda

Web links

Commons : Verkhnyaya Salda  - collection of images, videos and audio files