Vysotsk

This article is about the small town in Russia, for information on the villages of the same name in Ukraine, see Vysotsk (Dubrowyzja) and Vysotsk (Lyuboml) .

city Vysotsk Высоцк flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Leningrad Rajon Vyborg Founded 18th century City since 1940 surface 2  km² population 1244 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 622 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 5  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 81378 Post Code 188909 License Plate 47 OKATO 41 215 504 Geographical location Coordinates 60 ° 37 ′  N , 28 ° 34 ′  E Coordinates: 60 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  N , 28 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Leningrad Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Vysotsk ( Russian Высоцк , Finnish Uuras ) is a small town in the Leningrad Oblast ( Russia ) with 1,244 inhabitants (14 October 2010).

geography

The city is located about 150 km northwest of the oblast capital Saint Petersburg on the island Vysotsky on the northeast coast of the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea .

Vysotsk belongs to Vyborg Rajon and is located about twelve kilometers southwest of the Rajon administrative center. Vysotsk is one of the smallest cities in Russia in terms of population.

history

At the beginning of the 18th century, Tsar Peter I had a fortress built at the entrance to the Vyborg harbor and named it after the Swedish name of the strait Trongsund (Russian Тронгзунд ; Swedish Trångsund , literally narrow strait ). A small place was created around the fortress.

From 1812 the place and fortress belonged to the Grand Duchy of Finland of the Russian Empire . Therefore, with the Finnish Declaration of Independence in 1917 , they came to the Viipuri Province, Republic of Finland . In 1918 the Finnish name Uuras became official.

As a result of the Winter War , the town and most of West Karelia and the Karelian Isthmus came into the possession of the Soviet Union in 1940 , where it was called Trongsund again and received Soviet city rights.

During the Second World War , Uuras was again occupied by Finnish troops in August 1941 and recaptured in June 1944 by troops of the Leningrad Front of the Red Army as part of the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk Operation . As a result, the city belonged to the Soviet Union and was given its current name in July 1948 in honor of the hero of the Soviet Union Kuzma Vysotsky , who died in the area on March 4, 1940, in the last days of the Winter War.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	1345
1970	1318
1979	856
1989	929
2002	1673
2010	1244

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In Vysotsk, the remains of Trongsund fortress from the 18th century have been preserved.

Economy and Infrastructure

The main economic factor is the seaport south of the city, which has been actively expanded since the mid-1990s. Lukoil built an oil terminal ; a coal terminal was also built. The target for 2010 is a turnover of 15 million tons.

The city is the end of an eleven-kilometer electrified railway line that branches off the Uschkowo –Vyborg line at Popowo station on the northern bank of the Gulf of Finland .

By Popowo the highway leading A123 Zelenogorsk -Wyborg.

Personalities

• Jacob Björnström (1881-1935), Finnish sailor; born in Trongsund
• Alexander Popow (1859–1906), physicist; conducted experiments on wireless telegraphy near Trongsund and on the surrounding islands between 1897 and 1902

See also

• List of cities in Leningrad Oblast

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)

Web links

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

• Vysotsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)