Luchegorsk

Lutschegorsk (Russian Лучегорск ) is an urban-type settlement in Primorsky Krai (Russia) with 21 004 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is located in the Russian Far East in a valley formed by the Ussuri Creek Bikin middle of the western foothills of Sikhote -Alin, some 400 kilometers north-east of the regional capital Vladivostok near the border with the People's Republic of China and Khabarovsk region.

Lutschegorsk since 1970 administrative center of Rajons Pozharsky.

History

The village was founded in the 1960s when it was started near to the mining of coal, and has begun the construction of a thermal power plant. To this end, the small left Bikin Creek Kontrowod was dammed to a several square kilometers large cooling water reservoir.

In 1966, the place the status of an urban-type settlement. Their name is derived from the Russian sucking ( лучь ) for beam. Lutschegorsk today is the largest town in the Far East of Russia without a town.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

The economy of the town consists of coal surface mines northwest of the place and the system operated with coal Primorje- thermal power plant ( Primorskaya GRES ) with a capacity of 1495 megawatts. The first generating unit was put into operation in 1974, the plan was far last 1990. A power of 2750 MW, the continued construction, however, was terminated in 1992.

Lutschegorsk has eight kilometers west of the town a station on the Trans-Siberian Railway ( Route 8803 km from Moscow). The highway M60 " Ussuri " Khabarovsk - Vladivostok leads through the village.