Beloyarsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Beloyarsky (Russian Белоярский ) is an urban-type settlement in Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) with 12,615 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The settlement is located in the western part of the West Siberian Plain, approximately 50 km due east of Yekaterinburg Oblasthauptstadt mostly on the right bank of the Pyshma. The river is a few miles above the town to Belojarskoje reservoir dammed, the main function of the cooling water supply located at its eastern shore nuclear power plant Beloyarskaya.
Beloyarsky is the center of the homonymous city circle ( previously Rajon Beloyarsky ).
History
From 1686 or 1687 was founded by the boyars Tomilow from Verkhoturye in the area around the present settlement about 20 villages that were grouped under the name Belojarskaja sloboda. The name is apparently derived from the Russian words jar for a steep riverbank and bely, white for there outcropping rocks bright. 1695 was a Ostrog. By 1700, in 1725 belonged to the villages to Ujesd Verkhoturye, then to Ujesd Tobolsk, and finally to Ujesd Yekaterinburg of the government of Perm.
The importance of the settlement grew with the opening of the Siberian tract through the town 1781 A good century later the railway Yekaterinburg in 1885 -. Tyumen passed near the village, which is part of the Trans -Siberian Railway today.
In the context of an administrative reform Belojarskoje was how the village was now called, in 1924 the administrative center of a newly created, same Rajons. In March 1927, the Rajon was renamed after the nearby train station in Baschenowo dissolved on 20 September 1933 and its territory to the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk - as Yekaterinburg was in 1924 - assumed. On May 26, 1937 Rajon Belojarskoje but was restored.
Began in 1954 on the territory of Rajons the preparatory work for the construction of nuclear power plant Beloyarskaya near the present town Saretschny, which also affected the development of the village and Rajonverwaltungszentrums. On August 14, 1959, received under the present form of the name of the status of an urban-type settlement. At the same time the surrounding villages Butakowo, Bolshaya and Baschenowo as well as some factory settlements were incorporated.
The since December 17, 1995 at the current rate - by outsourcing the city Saretschny in 1992 and further changes - resulting in its present form Rajon Beloyarsky was transformed into an urban district under the administrative reform in Russia in 2007.
Population Development
Note: 1959-2002 Census data
Economy and infrastructure
In Beloyarsky there are companies in the forestry and wood processing industry, instrument engineering and the food industry as well as a packaging material factory.
The settlement is situated on the Trans-Siberian Railway ( station Baschenowo the same district a few kilometers southwest of the town center; kilometer in 1850 from Moscow), branches off from the there a backroad in the city asbestos. By Beloyarsky leads the regional road R351 from Ekaterinburg to Tyumen.