Yelizovo

Yelizovo (Russian Елизово ) is a town in the region of Kamchatka (Russia) with 39 569 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the east side of the Kamchatka Peninsula, about 30 km north- west of the regional capital, Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky, the river Awatscha about 20 km above its confluence with the Awatschabucht the Pacific Ocean.

The city is the administrative center of the Yelizovo Rajons same name.

History

A Russian village was established in 1848 in place of an old itelmenischen settlement; later Ostrog was built and the place called Stary Ostrog (Age Ostrog ). From 1897 the village was called Sawoiko, after the former military governor of the oblast Admiral Vasily Sawoiko ( 1809-1898 ). In 1924 it received its present name after 1922 on Kamchatka who died red partisan commander Georgi Matveyitch Jelisow. 1964 Yelizovo received the status of an urban-type settlement and 1975 city law.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

Yelizovo is a regional tourist center.

The city has a local history museum and the Museum of Kronozki Biosphere Reserve.

Economy and infrastructure

Yelizovo is the center of an agricultural area of local importance (meat and dairy farming, vegetable growing ). In addition to companies in the food industry, there are wood and construction industry.

Southeast of the city is the same airport in the regional capital Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky. The place is also situated on the main highway of the island ( R474 ) from Petropavlovsk -Kamchatsky to Ust- Kamchatka in the north of the peninsula, branching off from the road to here a Wiljutschinsk.

In Yelizovo also a long- wave radio transmitter is with a transmission power of 150 kW, of a 255 -meter-high radio mast with ARRT - antenna is used as a transmitting antenna.

Personalities

  • Alexei Boltenko (* 1979 in Yelizovo ), biathlete
  • Khoroshilov Alexander ( born 1984 in Yelizovo ), alpine skier
  • Dmitri Yaroshenko (* 1976), biathlete, grew up in Yelizovo
  • Yury Kudryashov ( b. 1946 ), biathlete
Vehicle registration plates of Russia OKATO Raion Ostrog (fortress) Ust-Kamchatsk ARRT-Antenna Klyuchi, Kamchatka Krai Palana
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