Gusinoozyorsk

Gussinoosjorsk (Russian Гусиноозёрск ) is a city in the Republic of Buryatia (Russia) with 24 582 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the Trans-Baikal, about 110 km southwest of the Republic capital of Ulan -Ude, at the northeastern end of the Gussinojesees in the broad, traversed by the Selenga valley between the foothills of the Khamar Daban in the west and selenium Gage foothills in the east.

The city is the administrative center of the Gussinoosjorsk Selenga Rajons ( Selenginski rayon ).

Gussinoosjorsk is on the road A165 Ulan-Ude -Mongolian border and five miles from the station of the Trans-Mongolian Railway Sagustai Ulan- Ude - Nauschki - Ulaanbaatar.

History

Gussinoosjorsk was created in 1939 as a settlement Schachty in the development of discovered here lignite deposits and received in 1953 under the present name of a town. The name derives from the lake, the Russian word for Gänsesee.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

On the opposite, south-western end of the lake about 30 kilometers from Gussinoosjorsk exists away at today's settlement Gussinoje Ozero since 1741 a Buddhist monastery, the Tamtschinski - Dazan.

In the village Nowoselenginsk, about 25 kilometers south-east, there is a originally in 1845 founded the Museum of the exiled here and partly in place buried Decembrists.

Economy

The main industry of the city is lignite, which temporarily came to a halt during the economic crisis of the 1990s, in Cholboldschin open pit ( Холбольджинский / Cholboldschinski ) on the east bank of the Gussinojesees and its resulting energy with the operated by the OGK -3 Gussinoosjorsker thermal power plant ( Гусиноозёрская ГРЭС / Gussinoosjorskaja GRES ). There are also companies in the light and food industries and the construction industry.