Gornozavodsk, Sakhalin Oblast

Gornosawodsk (Russian Горнозаводск ) is a village in the Sakhalin Oblast (Russia) with 4389 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village is situated on the southwest coast of the island of Sakhalin Sakhalin, about 80 kilometers ( direct distance) south-west of Oblasthauptstadt Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk. The place belongs to Rajon Newelsk whose administrative center, the city Newelsk, ten kilometers to the north lies.

Gornosawodsk extends from the coast several miles the valley of the river Lopatinka up.

History

The town was founded before 1905, when the southern part of Sakhalin Island was under the joint Russian- Japanese administration. He called himself Naihoro (Japanese内 幌 町, chō - ) derived from the Ainu word for " deep valley ". From 1905 to 1945 Naihoro belonged after the Treaty of Portsmouth, which the Russo- Japanese War from 1904 to 1905 ended with Japan. As a result of the Second World War, the city came to the Soviet Union again, and received its present name in 1947 under Soviet city charter (Russian for about mining town, in terms of coal production ).

After the population had declined substantially and continuously in the 1990s, since the 1950s, lost Gornosawodsk 2004 city status and has since rural settlement.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

After the coal mining came to a halt in the 1990s, today there are only a limited extent building materials industry. Addition, the population engaged in fishing and fur hunting in virtually unpopulated hinterland of the town, towards the southern tip of Sakhalin.

The village lies on the along the west coast of the island running narrow gauge railway ( Cape gauge 1067 mm) Iljinsk - Schebunino ( station Schachta - Sachalinskaja ). Through the village leads the regional road R496, which also runs along the west coast of Kholmsk south across Newelsk after Schebunino.