Abaza (town)

Abasa (Russian Абаза, abbreviation of " Абаканский Завод » / Abakanski Sawod = Abakan plant) is a city in Khakassia (mean southern Siberia, Russia) on the river Abakan. It is located about 150 km southwest of the capital of Republic of Abakan and has 17,115 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). The village was founded in 1856 to mine iron ore ( 1926-1957 interrupted) and has the status of a city since 1966. In its vicinity are spreading wide steppes, which are framed by the mountain chains of Sayan, with its taiga forests. This is one of the most remote areas of Khakassia.

Geography

Abasa is located at the starting point of the 250 km long mountain road to Tuva, one of only two roads that lead to this remote republic. One runs from Abakan about Abasa through the gorges of the Sayan Mountains and the Sajanski pass at 2206 m altitude to Ak - Dowurak in Tuva. The other leads from Abakan about Nizhny Suetuk, a Cossack village founded in 1740 by the Eastern Sayan Mountains to the Tuvan capital Kyzyl.

The river Abakan leads Abasa in March only an average water volume of 35 m³ / s (minimum monthly average, 13 m³ / s). After the snow melts in Sajan However, the waters swell in June to an average of 918 m³ / s (maximum in June cut even 2050 m³ / s). Through a flood in 2000, a bridge was swept away and thus a compound according to Tuva interrupted.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

In the 1950s, a new metallurgical combine was built and the area connected by a railway line to the Kuzbass region. At the same time, the road link, which brings you across the Sajanski pass to the asbestos mines of Ak - Dowurak and continue to Kyzyl arose.

Abasa has a typical iron ore deposit whose main minerals are magnetite and hematite, and in the present as a Nichterzmineral garnet. Accompanying minerals here chalcopyrite, pyrite and epidote are embedded with. This deposit was known already in the Iron Age, and since the mid-19th century, it is exploited industrially. The iron content of the ore is 40 %. 1988 reached the ore mining an amount of 3.5 million tons.