Yemanzhelinsk

Jemanschelinsk (Russian Еманжелинск ) is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russia) with 30,216 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Southern Urals 50 km south of Chelyabinsk Oblasthauptstadt, at the mouth of the river into the lake Jemanschelinka Big Sarykul ( Bolshoi Sarykul ).

Jemanschelinsk the Oblast is administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The town lies on the railway line Chelyabinsk - Troitsk Orsk - or - Qostanai and the M36 highway Ekaterinburg - Troitsk - Kazakh border.

History

A Cossack settlement on site of the present city dates back to 1770 and was named after the flowing stream here Jamanselga ( Bashkir / Tatar for worse Bach). In a local list of 1866, the village is known already in the Russified form as Staniza Jemanschelinskaja.

1929-1931 began the exploration and mining of discovered in the vicinity of the place hard coal deposit. A mining camp was established, which was granted city rights on 25 September 1951 to the present name.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy

After the coal industry, which Jemanschelinsk coined previously, was abandoned in 1997 with the closure of the last shafts, Maschinenfabrik Jemanschelinski mechanitscheski zavod is as a supplier of tractor construction now the largest company in the city. There are also other establishments of engineering, construction, textile and animal feed production.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Evgeny Bareev ( b. 1966 ), chess player
• Irina Shayk ( born 1986 ), model