Selenginsk

Selenginsk (Russian Селенгинск ) is a settlement in Russia, 60 km south of Lake Baikal on the Selenga River in the Republic of Buryatia in the Siberian federal district. The town has 14,546 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

History

In the thirties and forties of the 17th century the first Russians invaded to Buryatia ago. There were Cossacks, traders and farmers who were attracted by the fur wealth and gold. It was created in 1665 the fortified settlement Selenginsk.

Built in 1817 by missionaries of the London Missionary Society in Selenginsk a station. This work was initially supported by Tsar Alexander I, but in 1841 procured the Russian Orthodox church of Tsar Nicholas I, that the Protestant mission was banned.

In Soviet times, the place was ingloriously known by the pollution of the UNESCO World Heritage Lake Baikal with the effluents of a pulp mill built in 1973. Only in 1989 the first water treatment plant was put into operation. Air pollution and deposition of possibly contaminated with heavy metals residues persist. 1993 was calculated with an output of 30,000 tons of ash and 150,000 m³ of solid waste.

Selenginsk, station

Demographics

Note: Census data