Magadan

Magadan (Russian Магадан ) is a Russian seaport in the Magadan Oblast in two bays of the Okhotsk Sea. She has (October 14, 2010 Status ) 95 982 inhabitants.

The ice-free winter port is used for military purposes. By the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, he was restricted. Today, the city of Magadan is open for tourists and the military port can be used by civilian ships.

Location

Magadan is located on the coast of the Okhotsk Sea, on the land bridge between the mainland and the peninsula Starizki ( poluostrow Starizkogo ). The two banks of the land connection in the form of bays and hot Nagajew Bay ( Buchta Nagajewa ) and Gertner Bay ( Buchta Gertnera ). At the same time, it is surrounded by a mountainous surrounding region.

History

Magadan was created in 1929 initially as a forced labor camp for prisoners who arrived from Vladivostok by ship. In subsequent years, the prison camp was expanded to the administrative center of the region. At the same time we started building the road to the gold fields located 300 km north of the Kolyma.

Extensive wetlands and adverse construction conditions meant that for this route actually a 600 km long road was laid. Over the years, the road was extended to the 1700 km distant Yakutsk. Magadan was awarded in 1939, the town charter and served until the 1950s into primarily as a transit camp for the gulags located in the hinterland of the Stalin era.

Currently, Magadan has about 100,000 inhabitants. Beginning of the 1990s, in the heyday of the city as a military port, there were still about 150,000 inhabitants. Due to the significant reduction of military installations, the number of population is declining ever since.

1990 and 1991 there have been attempts to develop tourism ( fishing and hunting ) through contacts with German tour operators (HFT ). After initial successes the contact broke off again because Magadan did not have the necessary infrastructure.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and Transport

In the town of mining equipment are manufactured. There are also fish processing, machine-building and metal processing plants. In 1933 a large electric power station was built, which produces an output of 672 megawatts. Since 1962 there is also a plant.

The eminent for Northeast Russia seaport is navigable throughout the year. In addition, Magadan has the international airport Sokol. The city is connected by a highway No. 56 to the rest of Russia. Here, the section from Yakutsk to Magadan (the route Kolyma ) passable for long stretches only with all-terrain vehicles because many bridges are missing.

At the site there is a monitoring station of SDCM system.

Culture and sights

The Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, with over 9,000 square meters, and a height of 71.2 meters, the largest Orthodox Church in the Russian Far East. The church was built from 2001 in memory of the victims of political repression on the foundations of a never-completed House of Soviets. On 1 September 2011, the Cathedral Patriarch Kirill I was inaugurated.

In Magadan there is a monument in honor of the victims of Stalin's repression, which was inaugurated on 12 June 1996. It is called " mask of grief " and was designed by Ernst Neizvestny. Inside the monument is a replica of a typical prison cell in which political prisoners were sitting during the Stalin era. On 24 September 2008, the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited the monument and lay down flowers.

Policy

The current mayor of the city of Magadan, Vladimir Petschony, was elected into office on 10 October 2004.

In the presidential elections in Russia in 2012 voted 52.91 percent of Magadan for Vladimir Putin, 22.10 percent for Gennady Zyuganov, 11.26 percent for Mikhail Prokhorov, 8.79 percent for Vladimir Zhirinovsky and 3.91 percent for Sergei Mironov.

Further education institutions

  • Branch of the Khabarovsk State Technical University
  • Branch of the National Law Academy Moscow
  • Northeastern State University ( Северо - Восточный государственный университет )
  • Institute of Biological Problems of the North
  • Institute for the Research of the underwater world

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Dmitri Ipatow (* 1984), ski jumpers
  • Jascha Nemtsov ( b. 1963 ), pianist and musicologist
  • Jelena Välbe (* 1968), cross-country skier
  • Pavel Vinogradov (* 1953), Spaceman

Other personalities

The singer Mikhail Schufutinski occurred from 1971 to 1974 on a regular basis in one of the restaurants of Magadan.

Twinning

  • United States Anchorage, United States, since 1991
  • China People's Republic of Tonghua, People's Republic of China, since 1992
  • Latvia Jelgava, Latvia, since 2006
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