Vichorevka

city Vikhorevka Vichorevka Federal district Siberia Oblast Irkutsk Rajon Bratsk Founded 1957 City since 1966 surface 85  km² population 22,520 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 265 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 370  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 3953 Post Code 665770-665772 License Plate 38, 85, 138 OKATO 25 204 503 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 7 '  N , 101 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 7 '0 "  N , 101 ° 10' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Irkutsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Vichorewka ( Russian Вихоревка ) is a city in Irkutsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 22,520 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the central part of the Angara ridge , 35 km southwest of Bratsk and about 900 km northwest of the Oblast capital Irkutsk , on the river Vikhoreva , a left tributary of the Angara .

The city of Vikhorevka is part of the Bratsk district .

Wichorewka is an important train station on the Baikal-Amur main line (route kilometers 269 from Taischet ).

history

The place was created in 1957 in connection with the construction of the western section Taischet - Ust-Kut ( Lena ) of the later Baikal-Amur-Magistrale (BAM) as a workers' settlement at the station of the same name. It was named after the river Wichorewa, which got its name in memory of the Strelizen -Sotnik (Hundred Leader) Wichor Sawin, who died in the area in 1630 in a conflict with Evenki .

In 1966 the place received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	10,861
1970	17.901
1979	20,502
1989	23,872
2002	24,763
2010	22,520

Note: census data

Vikhorevka railway station

economy

In Vichorewka there are companies in the timber industry and rail transport ( depot ).

sons and daughters of the town

• Pyotr Wassiljewitsch Stschastliwy (* 1979), ice hockey player

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 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

Web links

Commons : Wichorewka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Vichorewka on mojgorod.ru (Russian)