Gubakha

Gubakha (Russian Губаха ) is a city in the Perm region (Russia) with 28,111 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 150 km northeast of the regional capital Perm at the KOSWA, a left tributary of the Kama on the western flank of the Middle Urals.

Gubakha is the region administratively subordinated directly. The city is the urban-type settlements Ugleuralski ( 9,310 inhabitants) and Schiro Frankowski ( 1,680 inhabitants) and 6 villages with a total population of 1,680 is also assumed that the total population of the administrative unit Gubakha city is 39 275 (calculated 2009).

The town lies on the railway line Tschussowoi - Kisel - Solikamsk.

History

Gubakha emerged in the mid-18th century as a mining camp in an iron ore deposit in the same river (also Gubaschka ). 1825 was discovered near the present settlement Ugleuralski coal.

After 1917, this was one of the first thermal power plants as part of the GOELRO plan, which still exists today under the name Kiselowskaja GRES -3, with attached workers' settlement Krschischanowsk (also Nischnjaja Gubakha ).

1928 Gubakha received the status of an urban-type settlement. In 1936, one of the then largest coking plants of the Soviet Union on the operation.

1941 were incorporated Krschischanowsk and other settlements and the site received municipal rights. In November 1959 Gubakha was combined with the nearby town Ugleuralsk, which had in the census in January 1959 with 46 408 almost as many inhabitants as Gubakha. The city Gubakha now with almost 100,000 inhabitants, but was disbanded in April 1960: a part of the early Ugleuralsk became an independent urban-type settlement Ugleuralski, as well as several other villages were spun.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

Since 1967 exists in Gubakha a Historical and Folk Museum.

Economy

The coal industry experienced particularly during the economic crisis of the 1990s a decline, so that today the chemical plant of Metafraks AG is the most important companies in the city. In addition, continue to produce the coke oven plants of the timber industry and the thermal power plant Kiselowskaja GRES - third