Wiljuisk
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List of cities in Russia |
Wiljuisk ( Russian Вилюйск , Yakut Бүлүү / Bülüü ) is a city in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) ( Russia ) with 10,234 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the Central Yakut Lowlands , about 535 km northwest of the republic capital Yakutsk , on the river Vilyui , a left tributary of the Lena .
The city of Viljuisk is the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name (Ulus).
Wiljuisk has an airport and a pier on the Wiljui.
history
Viljuisk was established in 1634 as a Tyukansk or Verkhneviljuisk Cossack winter camp . In 1775, as part of the division of the Irkutsk governorate into provinces and voivodeships , the settlement became a commissariat assigned to the Ostrog Oljokminsk of the Yakutsk province. In the area for forced labor exiled participants of the peasant uprising (1773-1775) under Pugachev built the place in a new place, which then in 1783 under the name Olensk (from Russian olen for deer , which is also reflected in today's coat of arms) received city rights and an administrative center of the vast Vilyui District of Yakutsk Oblast . In 1821 the name was changed to Viljuisk.
At the turn of the 20th century, Wiljuisk was again a place of exile, including for A. Wolski .
The main inner belt asteroid (2890) Vilyujsk was named after the city on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of Viljuisk .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 611 |
1926 | 1,334 |
1939 | 3,147 |
1959 | 4,817 |
1970 | 6.215 |
1979 | 7.108 |
1989 | 8,988 |
2002 | 9,776 |
2010 | 10,234 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
Viljuisk has a local museum. In the town there is a monument to the author Nikolai Chernyshevsky , who was exiled here from 1872 to 1883.
economy
There are timber and construction industries in Viljuisk, and livestock and fur hunting are carried out in the vicinity. Natural gas deposits are being exploited in the Rajon .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 21, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1978 SY 7 . Discovered 1978 Sept. 26 by LV Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj. "
Web links
- Vilyuisk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)