Minusinsk
Minusinsk (Russian Минусинск ) is a Russian district town with 71 170 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Krasnoyarsk region at the confluence of the Yenisei in Krasnoyarsk reservoir in Siberia.
Geography
Minusinsk is located near the Yenisei River, about 260 km as the crow south of Krasnoyarsk and 25 km east of Abakan, the capital of the Republic of Khakassia.
Minusinsk today terminus of a branch of the Trans -Siberian Railway. In the future, the line should be extended by the Sayan Mountains in the independent Republic of Tuva to Kyzyl. Furthermore, the city lies on the highway M 54
History
The Minusinsk Kurgankultur ( Bronze Age ) lasted from about 1000 BC to 1 AD
Founded in 1739 as a village Minjusa ( Миньюса ), renamed in 1810 in Minussinskoje ( Минусинское ), the place was in 1822 under its present name to the city. It developed as a center for agriculture, leather and fur processing and textile manufacturing. From the 19th to the early 20th century Minusinsk was a place of exile. In the environment at Shushenskoe Lenin was from 1897 to 1900 in political exile.
Demographics
Note: Census data (1926 rounded)
Culture and sights
Minusinsk has a theater and various churches.
The Martyanoff Museum is a 100 year old prestigious museum. It displays exhibits on the nature and history of the region.
In the vicinity of Minusinsk there is a large depot and a workshop for the old locomotives of the Trans -Siberian Railway.
Business and education
Main industries of the town are the electrical and food industries, as well as the manufacture of furniture and textiles. In Minusinsk the mineral resources of Tuva be shipped on the Yenisei in Krasnoyarsk reservoir or or transported by rail.
In Minusinsk there is a branch of Electrical Engineering University of Moscow.
Others
Life in Minusinsk is the subject of the novel minus the born 1971 in Kyzyl writer Roman Sentschin.
Twinning
- Russia Norilsk, Russia
Sons and daughters of the town
- Alexander Alexandrovich Menkow (* 1990), long jumper