Aleysk

Aleisk (Russian Алейск, also Alejsk, Aleysk ) is a city in the Altai region in southern West Siberia (Russia) with 29 510 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located 125 km southwest of Barnaul in the steppes of the northern Altai foothills, on the eastern edge of the Obplateaus, on the left bank of the Alei, a left tributary of the Ob.

Aleisk is the administrative center of the Rajons same name, on the railway line ( station Aleiskaja ) and the highway Barnaul - Semipalatinsk ( Kazakhstan).

The climate is continental with an average January temperature of -17.6 ° C and an average July temperature of 20.3 ° C. The mean annual rainfall is 444 mm.

Around the city there are facilities of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (see R -36M ).

History

Near the modern village originated in the mid-18th century the villages Bolschepanjuschewo and Malopanjuschewo to which the streets of Barnaul to major mining centers at that time Smeinogorsk and Kolyvan ( Kolyvan - Woskressensker work ) led past.

However, the official year of the town shall, however, in 1913, when near Malopanjuschewo in connection with the construction of a railway station, a settlement was established. The railway line opened in 1915 Novonikolayevsk (now Novosibirsk ) - Barnaul - Semipalatinsk was later part of the Turksib.

In connection with the development of the area has become a major sugar beet growing regions of Siberia in the 1920s and the establishment of a sugar factory ( in operation since 1931) as well as other companies in the food industry, the population grew rapidly. 1926 was the place the status of an urban-type settlement and in January 1939 the city right under the present name.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

In Aleisk there is a Historical and Folk Museum.

Economy

There are in Aleisk facilities operating in the food industry ( sugar, milk, meat and grain processing ).

Education

There are nine secondary schools, a lyceum, a special school and a sports school.