Worgaschor

Urban-type settlement Vorgashor Воргашор ( Russian ) Воргашор ( Komi ) Federal district Northwest Russia republic Komi Urban district Vorkuta Earlier names Worga-Schor Urban-type settlement since 1964 population 12,044 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 82151 Post Code 169933-169934 License Plate 11, 111 OKATO 87 410 553 Geographical location Coordinates 67 ° 35 '  N , 63 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 67 ° 34 '45 "  N , 63 ° 47' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Komi Republic

List of large settlements in Russia

Worgaschor ( Komi and Russian Воргашо́р , scientific transliteration Vorgašor ) is an urban-type settlement in the Komi Republic ( Russia ) with 12,044 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located beyond the Arctic Circle in the western foreland of the Polar Urals , about 900 km as the crow flies northeast of the republic capital Syktyvkar .

Worgaschor belongs to the Vorkuta district and is 15 km to the northwest from the city center.

history

The current settlement was built in the early 1960s, when the construction of a mine began there on the western flank of the Vorkuta coal basin . In 1964 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement, initially in the spelling Worga-Schor after the name of a river that rises in the area (Komi for stream on the reindeer path ). That name was already the little south to the settlement since 1956 shaft no. 19 , of 1944 to 1958 in the neighboring settlement of Komsomolsky drilled was.

The Worgaschorskaja colliery produced the first coal on November 4, 1975 and achieved its projected output of 15,000 tons of coal per day in August 1979. In the 1980s, there were plans to unite Worgaschor and the neighboring settlements and to give them town rights but at the latest because of the economic crisis and the associated decline in production and population after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was abandoned .

In the early 1990s, Worgaschor drew attention to himself through large-scale strike actions by the coal miners, in which wage increases were demanded, but political demands were also made.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	11,812
1979	18,488
1989	24,869
2002	19,100
2010	12,044

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The place-building company is the Worgaschorskaja coal mine , which is operated by VorkutaUgol ("Vorkuta coal"), a company controlled by Severstal . With an annual output of four million tonnes, the mine is the largest hard coal producer in the European part of Russia. The colliery is about 7 km west of the settlement.

The settlement and colliery are connected to the Pechora Railway via a railway line (freight traffic only) , the southern branch of which branches off at the Chanowei station 33 km south of Vorkuta and the northern part of Worgaschor past several other mines and associated settlements (Promyschlenny, Sewerny, Oktjabrski; today partly abandoned) leads back to Vorkuta ("Ring of Vorkuta"). There is also a road connection to Vorkuta.

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. ↑ Private website on Worgaschor (Russian)
3. ^ Fritjof Meyer : In der extinguished hell in SPIEGEL , 40/1997
4. ↑ mine Worgaschorskaja  ( page no longer available , searching web archives )  Info: The link is automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the operator WokutaUgol (Russian)