Krasnovishersk

Krasnovishersk (Russian Красновишерск ) is a city in the Perm region (Russia) with 16,099 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the western flank of the Northern Urals about 315 km north of the regional capital of Perm on the left bank of the Visher, a left tributary of the Kama.

Krasnovishersk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The nearest railway station is located about 100 kilometers south in Solikamsk. The city has a river port: up here Wischera is navigable.

History

In place of the present city an iron factory was 1894-1897 when wiping Aicha village by the French-Russian Volga Wischera AG is building.

In 1929 started the construction of a cellulose plant. Already since 1926 was in Krasnovishersk a camp for political prisoners, first as a branch of the Solovetsky camp, then as the central office of the Wischeralag in the Gulag system. Here was, inter alia, the writer Varlam Schalamow imprisoned.

In February 1942, the site received under the present name of the city law, which has Krasno- (Russian for red ) original ideological meaning ( in contrast to eg Krasnokamsk ).

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

In Krasnovishersk there is a history museum, natural monuments in the area, such as rocks in the Valley of Visher, including some with petroglyphs.

Economy

City -forming enterprises is the pulp and paper combine the Wischerabumprom AG. There are also food industry and the timber industry, in Rajon promotion of diamonds and other precious stones by Uralalmas.