Kirensk

Kirensk (Russian Киренск ) is a city in Irkutsk Oblast (Russia) with 12,640 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

• 2.1 Population development

Geography

The city is located about 700 km north of Irkutsk Oblasthauptstadt at the mouth of the Lena Kirenga.

The city is the administrative center of the Kirensk Rajons same name.

There are no all-weather land connections After Kirensk; only in the winter, the city is accessible via a partially running on the ice of the Lena Road. The city has an airport and a river port.

Climate

The climate is strictly continental. The annual mean temperature is -3.5 ° C, the mean July temperature at 18.8 ° C, average January temperature at -26.9 ° C. The mean annual rainfall is 381 mm with a maximum in the summer months.

History

Kirensk was founded in 1630 by Cossacks under the name Nikolski pogost. 1639 was Jerofei Khabarov build a saltern. The town developed into an important trading center on the Road to Yakutsk. As of 1650 took place Fairs and customs station was set up. 1665 Ostrog was built and renamed the place in Kirenski ostrog, after this opening into the Lena Kirenga (of Evenki kiri for dirty, so dirty river as gravel and stones are dark in many parts of the river of manganese compounds ).

1775, the place of the government to the city of Irkutsk was charged.

In the 19th century Kirensk of exile for political prisoners, such as Józef Piłsudski.

In 2001 Kirensk was strongly pulled by a flood of Lena affected, but not as the river downstream Lensk almost completely destroyed.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926 rounded)

Culture, Education and sights

In the city center, which is located on an island between Lena and Kirenga, a row of wooden houses from the 19th and early 20th century have been preserved, the former wine warehouse (or spirits bearing ) from 1906 to 1912.

There is a local history museum.

Economy

In Kirensk there are plants for ship repair, wood processing and the food industry.