Ziolkowski (city)

coat of arms
Federal district	far East
Oblast	Amur
Urban district	Uglegorsk
Founded	1961
Earlier names	Svobodny-18 (1961–1994); Uglegorsk (1994–2015)
City since	2015
population	5892 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Time zone	UTC + 9
Telephone code	(+7) 41643
Post Code	676470
License Plate	28
OKATO	10 570
Website	затоциолковский.рф
Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 46 ' N , 128 ° 7' E Coordinates: 51 ° 45 '36 " N , 128 ° 7' 16" E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in Amur Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Ziolkowski ( Russian Циолко́вский ) is a closed city (SATO) in the Russian Oblast Amur with 5892 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located 20 kilometers east of Shimanovsk and about 100 kilometers east of the border with the People's Republic of China on a tributary of the Seja . The next major Russian city is just under 200 kilometers south of Blagoveshchensk on the Amur .

history

The place was founded in 1961, received the status of an (initially secret) urban-type settlement and served between 1969 and 1985 under the name Svobodny-18 ( Свободный-18 , after the nearest larger town Svobodny ) as a quarter for a nearby ICBM base. In 1994 the name was changed to Uglegorsk ( Углегорск ).

The Vostochny Cosmodrome, which was built a good 20 kilometers southeast of the town as a replacement for the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan , should initially start operating in 2015. In this context, the place became a city in September 2015 and was on 30 December 2015 in honor of the space pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in Ziolkowski renamed. The first rocket launch from the cosmodrome then took place on April 28, 2016.

Population development

year	Residents
2002	5050
2010	5892

Note: census data

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)
^ Sonja Zekri: Russia's Space Travel: Without Detour Into Space. sueddeutsche.de, July 20, 2010, accessed April 28, 2016 .
↑ Russia launched the first rocket from the new spaceport. orf.at, April 28, 2016, accessed April 28, 2016 .

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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] Sonja Zekri: Russia's Space Travel: Without Detour Into Space. sueddeutsche.de, July 20, 2010, accessed April 28, 2016 .

[3] Russia launched the first rocket from the new spaceport. orf.at, April 28, 2016, accessed April 28, 2016 .


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