Gorny, Zabaykalsky Krai
Gorny (Russian Горный ) is an urban-type settlement in the region, Transbaikalia (Russia) with 12,341 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The settlement is situated in Transbaikalia on the western flank of the Tscherskigebirges right of the Amur river Ingoda source, about 100 kilometers southwest of the regional capital of Chita.
Gorny is placed under the administrative region and has the status of " Closed City " ( SATO ). The urban area is surrounded by the territory of Rajons Uljoty whose ( non-closed ) urban-type settlement Drowjanaja immediately northeast of Gorny is.
History
The village was founded in the early 1960s as a secret military settlement in connection with the planned deployment of units of the Strategic Missile Forces ( RWSN ) of the Soviet Army. 1965 was finally established in 1961, the 4 " Harbin " Rocket Division of the Transbaikal Military District moved to here, and the place was code-named Chita -46 the status of an urban-type settlement.
First, later also of the type UR -100 (SS- 11) and medium-range missiles RSD -10 were in the countryside in an area of 400 km ² intercontinental ballistic missiles of the type R -16, stationed (SS -20) and were started several times for testing purposes. Around 1990, here a larger number of these missiles were destroyed in accordance with the terms of the START-1 or of the INF Treaty.
1994, the existence of the place with his inclusion in the list of SATO has been officially confirmed; at the same time it received its present name ( Russian Adjective to gora mountain). In the same year the deployment of modern intercontinental ballistic missiles Topol -M (SS -27) began.
In 2002, the missile division was disbanded in its current form; Gorny but still remains a site of the Russian armed forces.
Demographics
Note: as of 2002 census data
Economy and infrastructure
The economy of the settlement is determined by its function as a military base.
Gorny is the end of a 43 -kilometer-long railway line ( freight only ), the ( 6139 line kilometers from Moscow) branches off from the station Lesnaja the Trans-Siberian Railway. Road link is in the about ten kilometers away Tataurowo on the highway M55 Irkutsk - Ulan-Ude - Chita.