Slyudyanka, Slyudyansky District, Irkutsk Oblast

Slyudiyanka (Russian Слюдянка ) is a city in Irkutsk Oblast (Russia) with 18,574 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is situated on the southern shore of Lake Baikal, north of the Khamar Daban, about 125 km south of the Oblasthauptstadt Irkutsk.

The city is the administrative center of the Slyudiyanka Rajons same name.

Slyudiyanka is located on the Trans -Siberian Railway. Here are the two stations Slyudiyanka -II ( 5306 km route from Moscow branch of the ancient Baikal Railway ) and Slyudiyanka -I ( km 5311 ). In addition, the city lies on the highway M55 Irkutsk - Chita.

History

Since started in the 17th century on the southwestern shore of Lake Baikal to the mining of mica ( phlogopite ), made ​​his first small settlements here. The mica, Russian sljuda, here also gave the opening into the lake river Slyudiyanka the name.

As was 1905, the Baikal Railway (also called Baikal oval track ) completed the last section of the Trans-Siberian Railway, was one station and associated new settlement the same name.

In 1936, the site of a town.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

Slyudiyanka is a tourist center for the south-western part of Lake Baikal, the starting point for visiting the Western Khamar - Daban and the southeast part of the Sayan and the old Baikal Railway, which branches off from the present Trans-Siberian route at the nearby settlement Kultuk to Port Baikal / Listvyanka and a represents significant engineering technical monument.

In the town itself there is the mineralogical museum gemstones Baikal ( Samozwety Baikala ).

Economy

In Slyudiyanka there are several companies in the building materials industry ( cement raw materials, etc.), as well as a fish factory farms and rail transport. In the mountains south of the village mica and marble are mined.