Tavda

Tavda (Russian Тавда ) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) with 35 421 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the west of the West Siberian Plain, about 360 km north-east of Yekaterinburg Oblasthauptstadt on the right bank of the same river Tavda, a left tributary of the Tobol river system of the Ob.

Tavda is the center of the district of the same city.

The city was reached in 1916 by a railway line from Yekaterinburg on Jegorschino (now Artjomowski ). In 1969, the line was extended by 185 km Meschduretschenski ( station Ustje - Acha ).

History

Tavda was created in 1910 as a forest worker settlement, which was chosen as the endpoint for a railway line opened in 1916, and received on July 20, 1937 city law.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

In Tavda there is a museum of wood and wood processing industry. Tavda is also balneological resort, based warm to 42 ° C medicinal water, which comes to light 2.5 kilometers from the city center.

Economy

Tavda is an important center for the timber industry and wood processing industry (plywood, hydrolysis of wood based products). There is also a plant for timber transport trailer and a river shipyard.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Natalya Chruschtscheljowa (born 1973 ), athlete