Usolye, Usolsky District, Perm Krai

Ussolje (Russian Усолье ) is a small town in the Perm region (Russia) with 5694 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the western flank of the Middle Urals about 190 km north of the regional capital of Perm on the right bank of the Kama here to Kamastausee dammed. On the opposite, east bank extends the big city Beresniki.

Ussolje is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Ussolje.

On the northern outskirts of the Kama is crossed by a 800 meter long road bridge.

History

The village was founded in 1606 as a settlement at the Salt Works Nowoje Ussolje ( Ussolje is a Russian folk name for facilities for salt extraction ). By the end of the 18th century the city center of the possessions of the Stroganov family was the promotion of salt Uralvorlandes which later shifted after Beresniki and Solikamsk on the Kama and to the 19th -century center.

In 1940 the site of a town. In this context, the same place in Siberia to avoid confusion in Ussolje - Sibirskoye has been renamed.

When filling the Kamastausees around 1958 a part of the city was flooded.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

Despite the flooding of part of the city's various buildings of the 18th to 19th centuries have been preserved, so the Saviour's Transfiguration Monastery ( Спасо - Преображенский монастырь / Spaso- Preobrazhensky monastyr ) with the same name Cathedral ( 1724-1731 ) and bell tower ( 1730) and the commercial series of 1832. receive only a ruin from the oldest building, the Christ - Abgar Chapel ( часовня Спаса - Убруса / tschassownja Spasa - Ubrussa ) from the first half of the 17th century.

Since 1965 there is an architectural - ethnographic museum.

Economy

The city's economy is dominated by the timber industry and processing ( furniture factory).