Inta
Инта | |
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Coordinates: 66°05′N 60°08′E / 66.083°N 60.133°E | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Komi Republic [1] |
Founded | 1942 |
Elevation | 50 m (160 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 32,080 |
• Estimate (2018)
[3] | 25,444 (−20.7%) |
• Subordinated to | town of republic significance of Inta [1] |
• Capital of | town of republic significance of Inta [1] |
• Urban okrug | Inta Urban Okrug [4] |
• Capital of | Inta Urban Okrug [4] |
Time zone | UTC+3 ( MSK [5]) |
Postal code(s) [6] | |
OKTMO ID | 87715000001 |
Website |
adminta |
Inta ( Russian: Инта́, Komi: Инта) is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia. Population: 32,080 ( 2010 Russian census); [2] 41,217 ( 2002 Census); [7] 60,220 ( 1989 Soviet census). [8]
Inta was founded around 1940 as a settlement to support a geological expedition to explore coal deposits and projecting of mines. The city and a separate forced labor camp ( Intalag) was built by deportees and political prisoners working in the coal mines of the Pechora coal basin. [9]
The city's name is in the Nenets language and means 'well-watered place.'
During the Soviet era, a " corrective labor camp", Intalag, was located here.
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with two urban-type settlements ( Verkhnyaya Inta and Kozhym) and twenty rural localities, incorporated as the town of republic significance of Inta—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. [1] As a municipal division, the town of republic significance of Inta is incorporated as Inta Urban Okrug. [4]
It is served by the Inta Airport and the Kotlas– Vorkuta railway line. Inta is situated on the banks of the river Bolshoya Inta.
At Inta, there is a CHAYKA-transmitter with a 460-meter tall guyed mast, which is the second-tallest structure in Europe.
Media related to Inta at Wikimedia Commons
Inta
Инта | |
---|---|
Coordinates: 66°05′N 60°08′E / 66.083°N 60.133°E | |
Country | Russia |
Federal subject | Komi Republic [1] |
Founded | 1942 |
Elevation | 50 m (160 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 32,080 |
• Estimate (2018)
[3] | 25,444 (−20.7%) |
• Subordinated to | town of republic significance of Inta [1] |
• Capital of | town of republic significance of Inta [1] |
• Urban okrug | Inta Urban Okrug [4] |
• Capital of | Inta Urban Okrug [4] |
Time zone | UTC+3 ( MSK [5]) |
Postal code(s) [6] | |
OKTMO ID | 87715000001 |
Website |
adminta |
Inta ( Russian: Инта́, Komi: Инта) is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia. Population: 32,080 ( 2010 Russian census); [2] 41,217 ( 2002 Census); [7] 60,220 ( 1989 Soviet census). [8]
Inta was founded around 1940 as a settlement to support a geological expedition to explore coal deposits and projecting of mines. The city and a separate forced labor camp ( Intalag) was built by deportees and political prisoners working in the coal mines of the Pechora coal basin. [9]
The city's name is in the Nenets language and means 'well-watered place.'
During the Soviet era, a " corrective labor camp", Intalag, was located here.
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with two urban-type settlements ( Verkhnyaya Inta and Kozhym) and twenty rural localities, incorporated as the town of republic significance of Inta—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. [1] As a municipal division, the town of republic significance of Inta is incorporated as Inta Urban Okrug. [4]
It is served by the Inta Airport and the Kotlas– Vorkuta railway line. Inta is situated on the banks of the river Bolshoya Inta.
At Inta, there is a CHAYKA-transmitter with a 460-meter tall guyed mast, which is the second-tallest structure in Europe.
Media related to Inta at Wikimedia Commons