Vilyuchinsk

Federal district	far East
region	Kamchatka
Urban district	Vilyuchinsk
mayor	Alexander Markman (suspended)
Founded	1968
City since	1968
surface	404 km²
population	22,905 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	57 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	10 m
Time zone	UTC + 12
Telephone code	(+7) 41535
Post Code	684090-684093
License Plate	41
OKATO	30 535
Website	viluchinsk-city.kamchatka.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates	52 ° 56 ' N , 158 ° 24' E Coordinates: 52 ° 56 '0 " N , 158 ° 24' 0" E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in the Kamchatka Region
	List of cities in Russia

Vilyuchinsk ( Russian Вилючинск ) is a closed city (SATO) in the Russian region of Kamchatka with 22,905 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Vilyuchinsk is located in the Far East of Russia on the Kamchatka Peninsula , around 20 km from the Oblast capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky , on the opposite side of Avacha Bay . Another nearby town is Yelisovo , 27 km north of Vilyuchinsk. Vilyuchinsk forms a district of the same name .

history

The city was formed on October 16, 1968 from three former settlements that served as bases for the Soviet Navy and as the location of a submarine shipyard.

During the Soviet era , the place changed its name several times: First it was called Sowetski (Советский), then from 1970 to 1994 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-50 (Петропавловск-Камчатский-50). As a closed place , it was not shown on Soviet maps for a long time. The current name of Vilyuchinsk was given to the city based on the nearby volcano Vilyuchinskaya Sopka (also Vilyuchinsky).

Population development

year	Residents
2002	24,166
2010	22,905

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The main line of business in the city, besides building submarines, is catching and processing fish. In the suburb of Rybachi, one of the three settlements from which the city was formed, there is a submarine base where a squadron of Russian nuclear submarines of the Akula-class , Oscar II-class and Project 667BDR are stationed. This basis has existed since 1938.

After the General Staff announced the closure of the base in Vilyuchinsk due to a lack of funding in 2003, it was decided to keep it. The staff building, the seaman's club and the officers' house have all been renovated. In addition, a new sports hall with an aqua park, a swimming pool, two training halls, a café and a bowling alley have been built. New buildings are u. a. a school and a hospital. In addition, the coastal infrastructure of the base was almost completely rebuilt in 2006 with new moorings and monitoring systems. Some new settlements are being built for the military.

The public infrastructure of Vilyuchinsk also consists of four general education and two music schools, a vocational college and five kindergartens. In the 1990s, two Russian Orthodox churches were built in the city for the first time .

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↑ ^a ^b Itogi VPN-2010. Administrativno-territorialʹnoe delenie kraja. (Results of the 2010 census. Administrative-territorial division of the region.) Table 2 (Download from the website of the Territorial Organ of the Kamchatka Region of the Federal Service of State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

Official website of the Independent City of Vilyuchinsk (Russian)
City unofficial website (Russian)
Vilyuchinsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] Itogi VPN-2010. Administrativno-territorialʹnoe delenie kraja. (Results of the 2010 census. Administrative-territorial division of the region.) Table 2 (Download from the website of the Territorial Organ of the Kamchatka Region of the Federal Service of State Statistics of the Russian Federation)