Sysert

Syssert (Russian Сысерть ) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) with 20 465 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Middle Urals, about 50 km south of Yekaterinburg Oblasthauptstadt river of the same Syssert, a right tributary of the Iset river system of the Ob.

Syssert is the administrative center of a district of the same city.

The city is an endpoint used in freight and suburban passenger railway line from Yekaterinburg.

History

Syssert arose in 1732 in connection with the establishment of ironworks Nischnesyssertski Zavod, later simply Syssertski Zavod. Also the place was so called until it got its present name with closure of the plant in 1932. The designation is in the Komi language about for narrow, wooded valley. 1946 was the site of a town.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1897 rounded)

Culture and sights

In the historical center of the complex of the former iron works from the 19th century is preserved, also the Simeon and Anna's Cathedral ( Собор Симеона и Анны / Sobor Simeona i Anny ) in 1788 and a school building from 1735.

In Syssert there is a local history museum and a Baschow museum in the birthplace of the writer.

Six kilometers north- west of the town lies the small, 32 -meter-deep lake Talkow Kamen, who fills a former talc quarry.

Economy

In Syssert factories for hydraulic machines ( Uralgidromasch ), electrical, pipe elements and porcelain, and wood industries are located in the nearby settlement Dwuretschensk a work for chromium, titanium and niobium - steel alloys.

Personalities

  • Pawel Baschow (1879-1950), writer and folklorist
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