Talitsa, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Taliza (Russian Талица ) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) with 16,225 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The city is located in the west of the West Siberian Plain, about 220 km east of the Oblasthauptstadt Yekaterinburg on the right bank of the Pyshma, a right tributary of the Tura River in the system of the Ob.
Taliza is the administrative center of the district of the same city.
Taliza located 5 km south of the railway line opened in 1885 Yekaterinburg - Tyumen ( 1913 to a section of the northern route of the Trans-Siberian Railway was the continuation of Tyumen to Omsk ). The station Taliza located near the settlement of Troitsk, 2028 route km from Moscow.
History
Taliza was created in 1732 as a settlement for a vodka distillery and was therefore initially Sawod Taliza ( "Factory Taliza " ) called. Later, the Siberian highway was led past. 1942 was the place the municipal law. After the Second World War, a labor camp for German prisoners of war was built in Taliza. At the camp included an anti-fascist school.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Culture and sights
In Taliza there is a tree park.
Near the city of the same name lies balneotherapy spa town, in which the apparent here tretendem, 26 ° C warm iodine - bromine spa water and Sapropelschlämmen from the nearby lake Majan among others Diseases of the digestive tract are treated.
In the settlement Troizki a local museum exists.
Economy
In Taliza there is a biochemical factory and enterprises of the timber and food industry.
Personalities
- Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007), politician and first president of Russia ( born in Butka, Rajon Taliza )
- Nikolai Kuznetsov (1911-1944), Spy, partisan and Hero of the Soviet Union ( born in Syrjanka, not far from Taliza )
- Sergei Nikolsky (1905-2012), mathematician ( born in Taliza )