Vershina Tjoi

Urban-type settlement Werschina Tjoi Вершина Тёи ( Russian ) Тӧӧ пазы ( Circassian ) Federal district Siberia republic Khakassia Rajon Askis Founded 1957 Urban-type settlement since 1959 population 3756 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 950  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 39045 Post Code 655731 License Plate 19th OKATO 95 208 569 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 16 '  N , 89 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 15 '50 "  N , 89 ° 33' 50"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Khakassia

Werschina Tjoi ( Russian Вершина Тёи ; Khakas пазы Тӧӧ , Töö Pazy ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Khakassia ( Russia ) with 3756 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The town is located in southern Siberia, in the western central part of Khakassia in the comb area of there upland character bearing and Taiga covered Abakangebirges , over 130 line kilometers southwest of the Republic capital Abakan . It is located a little below a pass height in the source area of ​​the river Tjoja , which flows in a southeastern direction to the pocket type not far from its mouth in the left Yenisei tributary Abakan . The name of the settlement literally stands for the summit of the Tjoja .

The settlement belongs to the Askis Rajon and is about 65 kilometers to the west from its administrative seat Askis .

history

In 1930 an iron ore deposit ( magnetite ) was discovered in the area of ​​today's Werschina Tjoi . The miners' settlement emerged when the development of the deposit began in 1957. As early as 1959, the status of an urban-type settlement was given. In 1965, after the railway line had been completed , iron ore mining began.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	2013
1970	6071
1979	5392
1989	5565
2002	4482
2010	3756

Note: census data

Culture and sights

There is a local museum in the settlement.

Economy and Infrastructure

The building company is the iron ore mine directly on the northeastern edge of the settlement, which has belonged to Evrazruda , which is now controlled by the Evraz Group , since 2003 . The ore is enriched on site and transported by rail to the steel works in Novokuznetsk in the Kuznetsk Basin for processing .

The Tjoja terminus, which was opened in 1965, is located near Vershina Tjoi, a 25-kilometer-long, single-track branch line electrified with 25  kV 50  Hz alternating current , which branches off the South Siberian Railway in Biskamscha . Road connection exists through the valley of Tom in the direction of Novokuznetsk in the neighboring Kemerovo Oblast , over a pass in the valley of the river Askis to Abakan and along the railway line to Biskamscha.

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. ↑ Valentin Kuzʹmin (Ed.): Ėnciklopedija Respubliki Chakasija . tape 1 . Government of the Republic of Khakassia, Abakan 2007, p. 111 ( Encyclopedia of the Republic of Khakassia ; Russian).
3. ↑ Evrazruda locations ( memento from June 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (including Teisky mine ) on the website of the Evraz Group (English)
4. ↑ G. Afonina: Kratkie svedenija o razvitii otečestvennych železnych dorog s 1838 po 1990 g. MPS, Moscow 1995, p. 174 ( Brief information on the development of the national railways from 1838 to 1990 ; Russian).

Web links

• View of the settlement near Panoramio
• View of the iron ore mine