Plesetsk

Plesetsk (Russian Плесецк ) is an urban-type settlement in the North -West Russia Arkhangelsk Oblast. She has ( as of October 14, 2010 ) 11,037 inhabitants.

Geography

Plesetsk is located about 800 km north-east of Moscow and 180 km south of Arkhangelsk Oblasthauptstadt. The settlement is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Plesetsk and also the center of Plessezkoje gorodskoje posselenije, in addition Plesetsk also includes the settlement Puksa.

A few kilometers northeast of the city are the Plesetsk cosmodrome and the associated city Mirny. Although this is on the territory of Rajons Plesetsk, but is under the direct management of the Oblast. The territory of the cosmodrome Plesetsk also includes the located near Plesetsk Pleszy airport with a.

History

With the construction of the railway line Vologda - Archangelsk, was established in 1897, the railway station Plessezkaja to which was a small settlement for working there railwaymen. The railway station was named after a pre-existing, about five kilometers distant location, near the lake Pleszy. The station Plessezkaja belonged at the time of its establishment Nawolozkaja volost of Oneschski Ujesd within the provinces of Arkhangelsk. In 1914 the first school and in 1916 the first church was built in the settlement.

During the Russian Civil War, the city was hotly contested and was taken in September 1919 by the British and the White Guards. After the liberation of the town on 12 February 1920, the settlement was largely destroyed and had to be rebuilt. At the beginning of the 1920s settled in the area by the wood industry. There came other small labor settlements on the railway lines to Plessezkaja, in 1924 summarized the administrative unit Plessezkaja volost with the administrative center Nawolok. Two years later the Plessezkaja was volost as Plessezkaja ukrupnennaja volost Ujesd put under the administration of Archangelski. Administrative center of the volost was the Plessezkaja settlement. 1926 a sawmill was built in the settlement, which since 1932 also exported wood. In the early 1930s, there was also a hospital.

In the course of administrative reform in 1929, the Plessezkaja ukrupnennaja volost was combined with the labor settlement Samoded and Rajon Plesetsk, founded the settlement Plessezkaja as an administrative center. In 1932 the settlement was to work settlement ( посёлок Russian рабочий, corresponding to an urban-type settlement ) appointed and was named Plesetsk.

Since 2006, Plesetsk administrative center of the Plessezkoje gorodskoje is posselenije.

Station Plessezkaja the Northern Railway

Population Development

The following overview shows the evolution of populations of Plesetsk.

Note: 1959-2010 Census data

Economy

A major industry of the village is the timber industry. In addition Plesetsk has a dairy and a mode for meat processing.