Satka

Satka (Russian Сатка ) is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russia) with 45 178 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the western flank of the Southern Urals about 230 km west of the Oblasthauptstadt Chelyabinsk at the mouth of Malaya Satka ( little Satka ) in the Bolshaya Satka (Grand Satka ), a left tributary of the river system in the Ai on the Kama.

Satka is the Oblast subordinated administratively directly and also the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The city is connected by a branch line with the 24 km distant station Berdjausch ( 1890 line kilometers from Moscow) of the southern branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway Moscow - Samara Chelyabinsk - Omsk. A few kilometers south of the city runs the M5 highway Moscow - Chelyabinsk.

History

Satka originated in 1756 with the establishment of the iron works Troitsko - Satkinski Sawod by the Demidov family of entrepreneurs and received on April 20, 1937 city law.

Demographics

Note: from 1939 census data

Culture and sights

In Satka individual buildings have survived from the 19th century, the house of the manager of the ironworks of 1848.

The city has a local history museum and an exhibition center.

On the territory of Rajons Satka is the 1993, the National Park Sjuratkul which nearly 90,000 acres to the city of the same name, about 25 kilometers southeast occupies located in 724 meters of altitude lake Sjuratkul. The management of the park is located in Satka.

In the valley of the river Ai, there are about 35 caves, the Kurgasak ice cave.

Sports Palace of AG magnesite

Economy

Satka is a center of mining and processing of magnesite. The residents here AG magnesite produced on the basis of subsidized in several surface mines raw material refractories.

In addition, there is a significant cast iron and steel as well as companies in the construction and timber industries.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Vladimir Gundarzew (* 1944), biathlete