Shakhtyorsk
Schachtjorsk (Russian Шахтёрск, Japanese塔 路 町, toro -chō ) is a town in Sakhalin Oblast (Russia) with 8382 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The city lies a few kilometers from the west coast of Sakhalin Island, about 350 km northwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk, the Tatar Strait between the Japanese Sea and Ochotskischem sea.
The city is Schachtjorsk belongs administratively to Rajon Uglegorsk. It is located about 10 km north of Rajonzentrums. The city Schachtjorsk subordinated administratively is the south to Udarnoje settlement (also known as " Udarny " means ).
History
The town was founded under the name Toro -chō after 1905, while the membership of the southern part of the island ( up to 50 ° latitude ) to Japan ( under the Treaty of Portsmouth that ended the Russo Japanese War 1904-1905 ). As a result of the Second World War, the city came to the Soviet Union in 1947 and received city rights under the name Schachtjorsk (from Shakhtar for Russian miner, which refers to the coal mining in the region ).
Demographics
Note: Census data
Economy
The economy of Schachtjorsk is determined by the coal industry, on the basis of a power station is operated. There are also construction industry here.
Traffic
1937, the construction of a railway from kapspurigen Ilyinskoye about Uglegorsk after Schachtjorsk was begun under Japanese administration. Although the construction was already well advanced with numerous bridges, it was canceled in 1942. Even after Schachtjorsk received no rail connection. A narrow gauge industrial railway of OOO Lokomotiw (formerly Schachtjorkoje pogrusotschno - transportnoje uprawlenie ) is used only for the transport of coal between Urdarnoje and the central processing plant in the west of Schachtjorsk.
North of Schachtjorsk has an airport, which was operated in 2011 twice a week from the airline's SAT Airlines with flights to Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk.
Urban transport in Schachtjorsk is the bus company Schachtjorskoje passaschirskoje ATP performed (a subsidiary of Sachawtotrans ). Furthermore, it is served in the common operation with the ATP Uglegorskoje passaschirskoje the connection after Uglegorsk. Furthermore, there is sparse bus service to Boschnjakowo and once a day a connection to Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Alexander Medvedev ( born 1955 ), manager