Sol-Iletsk

Sol - Ilezk (Russian Соль - Илецк ) is a town and a resort town with 28,377 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Russian region of Orenburg. It lies between the southern Ural Mountains and the Kazakh border (the latter is about 50 km from the city center ), about 70 km south of the regional capital Orenburg.

Population

The majority of the population in sol- Ilezk ask the Russians, but there is one - albeit in the 1990s shrunk by emigration - large ethnic German minority, and smaller shares of the population of Kazakhs, Tatars and Bashkirs.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Attractions

Sol - Ilezk is in the central Russia known for the Salt Lake Raswal (also known as Soljonka ) far from the city, whose water has a greater density than the human body. Thanks to the lake there, especially in recent years, a growing tourism. From salt (Russian: Sol ) also has the city its name. The only other sights include the Orthodox Church and the typical Russian monument to World War II.

Economy

Main economic activity in addition to tourism and salt production from the lake for the city's agriculture (especially melon and watermelon cultivation). Yelena Baturina, wife of the building contractor and sacked Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has invested since 2002 in the tourist infrastructure with the aim of expanding sol- Ilezk to a luxury spa.

Personalities

  • Alexei Fedorchenko (born 1966 ), film director, born in sol- Ilezk
  • Carola Neher, one to ten years in prison sentenced during the Great Terror German actress who had emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union, died in 1942 in a camp of the Gulag in sol- Ilezk of typhoid
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