Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky

Zheleznogorsk - Ilimski (Russian Железногорск - Илимский ) is a city in Irkutsk Oblast (Russia) with 26 079 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the northwest of the Lena - Angara plateau, about 1200 km north of the Irkutsk Oblasthauptstadt few kilometers east of Ilim, a right tributary of the Angara.

The city Zheleznogorsk - Ilimski is the administrative center of the Rajons Nischneilimski (, Low - Ilim Rajon ').

Zheleznogorsk - Ilimski is located on the Baikal - Amur Mainline ( station Korschunicha - Angarskaja; kilometer 555 from Taischet ) and the highway Bratsk - Ust- Kut.

History

Instead of a possibly existing since the 17th century settlement of the iron ore deposit was born in 1948 in connection with the start of mining at Mount Schelesnaja ( Eisenberg ) the Bergarbeitersiedlung Korschunicha. It was named, as well as the current flowing through the town and opens into the Ilim river, after the prospector Schestak Korshunov, who had the " Eisenberg " discovered in the 17th century.

In the 1950s, with the construction and completion of the West section Taischet - Ust- Kut (Lena ) of the later Baikal - Amur Mainline and the inclusion of large scale Eisenberg mining the location of the status of urban-type settlement under the name Zheleznogorsk ( " Eisenberg city " ) was granted.

1965, with completion of the Erzanreicherungsfabrik, the place city was chartered under the present name. The derived from the river name Ilim additional Ilimski to distinguish it from the city of Zheleznogorsk in the Kursk Oblast (or today by Zheleznogorsk in the Krasnoyarsk region, which specify this name later got ).

There is a town twinning with the Japanese city of Sakata.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

In the city there is since 1980 a Historical and Art Museum, named after the born near rocket designer Mikhail Yangel.

Economy

City development it are the iron ore opencast mines and the plant for the production of iron ore concentrate, which belong to the Mechel -AG. In addition, there is a heating and establishments in the food industry.