Wiljuisk

city Wiljuisk Вилюйск ( Russian ) Бүлүү ( Yakut ) flag coat of arms Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Wiljuisk mayor Albert Ivanov Founded 1634 Earlier names Olensk City since 1783 surface 18  km² population 10,234 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 569 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 105  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41132 Post Code 678200, 678202 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 218 501 Geographical location Coordinates 63 ° 45 '  N , 121 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 63 ° 45 '0 "  N , 121 ° 37' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

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
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

• List of cities in the Sakha Republic

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. ^ 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

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

• Vilyuisk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)