Asino

Asino (Russian Асино ) is a city in the Tomsk Oblast (Russia) with 25,618 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the southeast of the West Siberian Plain, about 90 km northeast of Oblasthauptstadt Tomsk, on Chulym, a right tributary of the Ob.

The city is the Assino Oblast administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

Assino has a river port on the Chulym and is connected by a railway with Tomsk since December 11, 1937 (regular operation from 1939). In 1973, the route was 180 km to the north to Bely Yar on Ket, extended.

History

Assino originated in 1896 as a re-settlers village Xenjewka (later also Xenijewski ), named after the sister of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Xenija Alexandrovna. In 1933 it was renamed the Assino derived from Asya, a Russian diminutive of Xenija. In 1952 the site of a town.

Lived in the 1950s and worked in Assino of aspiring writers Wil Lipatow, in the nearby village Nowokuskowo to 1956 the writer Georgi Markov ( 1911-1991 ), later president of the Writers' Union of the USSR.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture, Education and sights

Since 1989, there has Assino in a local museum, with branch in Georgi Markov ' birthplace in Nowokuskowo.

Economy

Asino is a regional center of the timber industry. However, the largest wood-processing company in the city, the Combine ASKOM is currently out of service. There are efforts to reopen.

Since the 1990s, the birch bark craft has developed as a major industry, with Asino is the center of the entire region widespread traditional processing of birch bark.

Nearby agriculture and building materials industry operated.