Ust-Kut
Ust- Kut (Russian Усть - Кут ) is a city in the Russian Irkutsk Oblast (southern Siberia ) ( October 14, 2010 status ) with 45,375 residents.
Geography
The city is situated on the northern edge of the Lena - Angara plateau about 510 km north of the Irkutsk Oblasthauptstadt on the left bank of the Lena and its tributary Kuta. It extends in a narrow strip about 20 km along these rivers.
The city of Ust- Kut is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.
History
1631 built Cossack Ataman Ivan Galkin at the mouth of the river at that time called Kut (of Evenki for peat bog, uncertain reason, according to the character of the river valley ) in the Lena a Ostrog and called him Ust- Kutski ( Kut - mouth ). In the second half of the 17th century, the Ostrog lost its military importance; the place was, however, an important trading point since reached the land of the Ilim Lena.
The mineral springs at the western end of the village, on the right bank of Kuta, which are used balneologically since 1908, should also have been discovered in the 17th century by Jerofei Khabarov. As of 1925, at the sources of a " resort".
Around 1900 Ust -Kut and political exile, so for Leon Trotsky.
1951 reached the built from the late 1940s railway from Taischet on the Trans -Siberian railway via Bratsk the place. In 1954 the settlements Ust -Kut and some kilometers downstream location on the Lena Ossetrowo were incorporated into the town Ust- Kut and later incorporated into other villages, such Karpowo up the river Kuta.
1958 due to the impending flooding of the Bratsk reservoir for long stretches newly trassierte railway to Ust- Kut was re-opened, and in 1974 began from here under great propagandistic effort setting up the actual Baikal - Amur Mainline in the direction of Lake Baikal north shore, Tynda and Komsomolsk on-Amur.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Culture and sights
In Ust- Kut, there is a local history museum.
Economy and infrastructure
Ust- Kut is mainly as a transport hub of importance. The river port of the city, Ossetrowo, is the transition point between road and rail traffic and the river cruise on the Lena, who here has one of their main bases. In the navigation period run from Ust -Kut and the passenger ships downriver toward Yakutsk or Tiksi.
There is a shipyard, a larger tank farms and companies in the timber industry and the food industry.
Ust- Kut is located on the Baikal - Amur Mainline and has several stations, including Ust- Kut and the actual main railway station in the district of Lena Ossetrowo near the river port ( 723 route km from Taischet ). Below the city, near the settlement of Jakurim, crossing the railway track on a nearly 500 -meter-long bridge, the Lena. This is, although located in the upper part of the middle barrel, the last bridge over the Lena to its mouth.
Ust- Kut is connected via the regional road R419 Tulun about Bratsk in the Russian road network. Northeast of the city, the road ends after a few kilometers along the Lena. In eastern direction leads down a dirt road in the further course along the route of the Baikal - Amur Mainline after they crossed in Ust -Kut Lena.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Jelena Sadoroschnaja ( b. 1977 ), athlete