Vilyuchinsk
Wiljutschinsk (Russian Вилючинск ) is a closed city ( SATO ) in the Russian Kamchatka region with 22 905 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
Wiljutschinsk located in the Far East of Russia on the Kamchatka Peninsula, about 20 km from the Oblasthauptstadt Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on the opposite side of the Awatscha Bay. Another nearby town is Yelizovo, 27 km north of Wiljutschinsk away. Wiljutschinsk forms an urban district of the same name.
History
The city was formed on 16 October 1968 from three former settlements which served as bases of the Soviet Navy, and as the location of a submarine shipyard.
In Soviet times, the place changed hands several times his name: First, he was Sovetsky ( Советский ), from 1970 to 1994 then Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky -50 ( Петропавловск - Камчатский -50). As a closed place he was long time not listed on Soviet maps. The present name was given Wiljutschinsk the city in reference to the nearby volcano Wiljutschinski.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Economy and infrastructure
Main industry of the city is adjacent to the construction of submarines of the catching and processing of fish. The suburb Rybatschi, one of the three settlements from which the city was formed, there is a submarine base, where a squadron of Russian nuclear submarines of the Akula class, Oscar II class and project 667BDR is stationed. This has been established since 1938.
After the announced closure of the General Staff in 2003 base in Wiljutschinsk due to lack of funding, however, their further preservation has been decided yet. The headquarters building, the sailor and the officer club house have been renovated. In addition, a new sports hall with aqua park, swimming pool, two gyms, a cafe and a bowling alley have been built. New buildings are, inter alia, a school and a hospital. In addition, the coastal infrastructure of the base in 2006 has been almost completely rebuilt with new piers and monitoring systems. For military personnel incur some new housing developments.
The public infrastructure of Wiljutschinsk also consists of four general and two music schools, a vocational college and five kindergartens. In the 1990s, two Russian Orthodox churches were built in the city for the first time.
In Wiljutschinsk the world's first floating nuclear power plant to be installed. In the nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov will come with a net capacity of 60 megawatts for use on a floating platform two KLT reactors. Completion is scheduled for 2013.