Komarovsky, Orenburg Oblast

Komarowski (Russian Комаровский ) is a closed settlement in the Orenburg Oblast (Russia) with 8064 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 )

Geography

The settlement is situated about 350 km as the crow east-southeast of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Orenburg and just 25 km from the border with Kazakhstan away, then immediately south of the territory of the town Jasny. As a "closed administrative- territorial formations " ( SATO ) is the settlement a separate urban district ( okrug Gorodskoi ), which is completely surrounded by the territory of the Rajons Jasnenski.

History

The town was founded as a military settlement near a base of the Strategic Missile Forces of the Soviet Union as part of the city Jasny from 1962. 1972 it became independent, secret urban-type settlement and initially carried the code name Dombarowski - 3 after less than 40 km south-west to settlement Dombarowski. In 1994, the place under the present name, in honor of the 1967 Soyuz 1 in the Orenburg Oblast, some 40 km north- west of the village unfortunate cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, the status of a "closed", but no more secret urban-type settlement. Since 2011 Komarowski is rural settlement.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and Transport

Local development it is the base Dombarowski of the Strategic Missile Forces ( RWSN ) of the Russian armed forces with 30 west and north of the settlement distributed missile silos for R -36M intercontinental missiles. The base is also used commercially under the name Baikonur Jasny. The Cosmodrome is located about 7 km north of Jasny and Komarowski.

Together with the city Jasny has Komarowski road and railway Station (Station Gorny Ljon, endpoint of a side track 4 km south-east ) towards the nearly 100 km west situated big city Orsk.