Nizhny Tagil
Nizhny Tagil Нижний Тагил | |
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Coordinates: 57°55′N 59°58′E / 57.917°N 59.967°ECoordinates: 57°55′N 59°58′E / 57.917°N 59.967°E | |
Kintra | Roushie |
Federal subject | Sverdlovsk Oblast |
Foondit | 1722 |
Govrenment | |
• Bodi | City Duma |
• Mayor | Valentina Issayeva |
Area | |
• Total | 4601 km2 (1,776 sq mi) |
Elevation | 200 m (700 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 361,883 |
• Rank | 48t in 2010 |
• Density | 79/km2 (200/sq mi) |
• Urban okrug | Nizhny Tagil Urban Okrug |
Time zone | UTC+5 ([2]) |
Postal code(s)[3] | |
Dialin code(s) | +7 3435 |
Twin touns | Kryvyi Rih, Novokuznetsk, Brest, Chattanooga, Mariánské Lázně, Luhansk, Yevpatoria |
OKTMO ID | 65751000001 |
Website | www |
Nizhny Tagil (Roushie: Ни́жний Таги́л) is a ceety in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Roushie, situatit 25 kilometer (16 mi) east o the virtual border atween Europe an Asie. Population: 390,498 (2002 Census);[4] 439,521 (1989 Census).[5]
Geografie
[eedit | eedit soorce]Rivers an ponds tak up ane third o the ceety's territory. Nizhny Tagil spans 22 kilometer (14 mi) frae north tae sooth an 21 kilometer (13 mi) frae east tae wast. The ceety is biggit aroond Lisya Muntain extinct volcano. This muntain wi a watch-touer on its tap is a seembol o the ceety. Anither muntain, Medved-Kamen, is locatit in the northren pairt o the ceety an is 100 meter (330 ft) heich. Heich rock wall breaks intae the Tagil River.
The ceety is dividit intae three ceety destricts: Leninsky, encompassin the ceety centre an Nizhnetagilsky Pond; Tagilstroyevsky, a comparatively sma section at the north pairt o toun; an Dzerzhinsky, a sizable section tae the east o the ceety centre principally consistin o apairtment biggins an ither residences.
In addeetion, a lairge portion o the laund athin the boonds o the ceety is dominatit bi the facilities o the various factories locatitd in this industrial ceety, includin those o Oxochem.
The ceety's climate is temperate continental. The geological structur o the ceety is vera complex. Its altitude varies frae 170 tae 380 meter (560 tae 1,250 ft). This maks Nizhny Tagil ane o the rare naitural store-rooms on the Yird. Thare are mony mineral deposits containin 63 elements o the periodic table.
Rail lines an heich-gates connect the ceety wi ithers in aw directions: wi Yekaterinburg 130 kilometer (81 mi) tae the sooth, wi Serov an Priobye in the north, wi Perm in the wast, an wi Alapayevsk an Verkhnyaya Salda in the east.
The ceety is servit bi the Salka Airport, locatit 17 kilometer (11 mi) northeast o the ceety. It wis a militar base till 1994 an haes nou acome a ceevil airport.
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]The history o Nizhny Tagil begins wi the openin o the Vysokogorsky iron ore quarry in 1696. The deposits wur parteecularly rich, an includit lodes o magnetic iron. The surroondin landscape providit iverything needit for a successfu an productive minin an smeltin operation — rivers for transport, forests for fuel, an suitable climate.
The ceety itsel wis legally foondit in October 1722 amang dounsets connectit tae the construction o the Vyysky copper smeltin plant, awned bi Nikolay Demidov. Ower the follaein decades, the ceety developit as ane o the early centres o Roushie industrialisation, an it haes been a major producer o cast iron an steel.
The first Roushie steam locomotive wis constructit thare in 1833, an the faither-an-son ingineers who developit it, Ye.A. an M.Ye. Cherepanov (Черепанов), wur in 1956 commemoratit bi an 8-meter (26 ft) bronze statue (executit bi sculptor A. S. Kondratyev an airchitect A. V. Sotnikov) which staunds in the centre o the Theatrical Square in the hert o dountoun.
Toun status wis grantit tae Nizhny Tagil in 1919.
Accordin tae some soorces, the copper for the skin o the Statue of Liberty wis mined an refined in Nizhny Tagil.[6]
Admeenistrative an municipal status
[eedit | eedit soorce]Athin the framewirk o the admeenistrative diveesions, Nizhny Tagil serves as the administrative centre o Prigorodny Destrict,[7] even tho it is no a pairt o it.[8] As an admeenistrative division, it is, thegither wi twinty-three landwart localities, incorporatit separately as the Ceety o Nizhny Tagil[8]—an admeenistrative unit wi the status equal tae that o the destricts.[9] As a municipal diveesion, the Ceety o Nizhny Tagil is incorporatit as Nizhny Tagil Urban Okrug.[10]
Economy
[eedit | eedit soorce]Nizhny Tagil is a lairge industrial centre o the Middle Urals. Such heichlie pouer-intensive industries as ferrous metallurgie, ingineerin, chemistrie, an metal wirkin are well-developit in the ceety. A tot o 606 manufacturin companies operate in Nizhny Tagil.
Nizhny Tagil Iron and Steel Plant (Nizhnetagilsky Metallurgichesky Kombinat, NTMK) is a leadin Roushie steel company.
Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) is weel kent in Roushie as the main producer o modren tanks on the territory o the umwhile Soviet Union. The T-72, T-90, an T-95 are producit in the ceety.
Internaitional relations
[eedit | eedit soorce]Twin towns/sister ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]Nizhny Tagil is twinned wi:
- Cheb, Czech Republic
- Brest, Belaroushie
- Chattanooga, Unitit States
- Novokuznetsk, Roushie
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Invalid reference parameter
- ↑ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Roushie). 3 Juin 2011. Retrieved 19 Januar 2019.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
- ↑ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Roushie)
- ↑ Roushie Federal State Stateestics Service (21 Mey 2004). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек" [Population o Roushie, Its Federal Destricts, Federal Subjects, Destricts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Admeenistrative Centres, an Rural Localities wi Population o Ower 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [Aw-Roushie Population Census o 2002] (in Roushie).CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
- ↑ "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров" [Aw Union Population Census o 1989: Present Population o Union an Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts an Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Destricts, Urban Settlements, an Veelages Servin as Destrict Admeenistrative Centres]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [Aw-Union Population Census o 1989] (in Roushie). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute o Demografie at the Naitional Resairch Varsity: Heicher Schuil o Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
- ↑ "Statue of Liberty Made of Russian Copper?".
- ↑ Государственный комитет Российской Федерации по статистике. Комитет Российской Федерации по стандартизации, метрологии и сертификации. №ОК 019-95 1 января 1997 г. «Общероссийский классификатор объектов административно-территориального деления. Код 65 232», в ред. изменения №275/2015 от 1 сентября 2015 г.. (State Statistics Committee o the Roushie Federation. Committee o the Roushie Federation on Staundartisation, Metrology, an Certification. #OK 019-95 Januar 1, 1997 Roushie Clessification o Objects o Admeenistrative Diveesion . Code 65 232, as amended by the Amendment #275/2015 of September 1, 2015. ).
- ↑ a b Государственный комитет Российской Федерации по статистике. Комитет Российской Федерации по стандартизации, метрологии и сертификации. №ОК 019-95 1 января 1997 г. «Общероссийский классификатор объектов административно-территориального деления. Код 65 476», в ред. изменения №275/2015 от 1 сентября 2015 г.. (State Statistics Committee o the Roushie Federation. Committee o the Roushie Federation on Staundartisation, Metrology, an Certification. #OK 019-95 Januar 1, 1997 Roushie Clessification o Objects o Admeenistrative Diveesion . Code 65 476, as amended by the Amendment #275/2015 of September 1, 2015. ).
- ↑ Law #30-OZ
- ↑ Law #85-OZ
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