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Amursk is a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Amur District of the Khabarovsk Territory. Amursk was founded on June 19, 1958.
Amur City Museum of Local Lore
Hall dedicated to the life of the
first Russian settlers.
Botanical garden, the only one in the
Khabarovsk Territory. Founded in 1988. Contains 1500 plant species. The
excursion flow is 15 thousand visitors a year.
Amur City Museum of
Local Lore, founded in 1972.
The central estate of the reserve
"Bologna".
Botanical Garden
Cinema "Youth".
Palace of
Culture.
Krokhalev Island is a protected island on the river, located
opposite the beach.
"Amur city arboretum"
By plane
The nearest airport is Khurba, located between Amursk and
Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
By train
The nearest railway station Mylki
of the Far Eastern Railway is located 11 km from the city (line
Khabarovsk - Volochaevka II - Komsomolsk-on-Amur). A city bus runs from
the station to Amursk.
By car
From Khabarovsk to
Komsomolsk-on-Amur, then to Amursk.
By bus
Intercity bus
service to Khabarovsk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, from the village. Elban.
There is a bus station in Amursk (Pionerskaya st.).
Suburban
"dacha" routes.
On the ship
The city stands on the left bank
of the Amur River. Unfortunately, in the 2010s, cruise ships and Meteors
do not enter Amursk.
River taxi to the village of Voznesenskoye,
Amur region. If the traveler wants to experience the “thrill” of sailing
along the Amur, which is often stormy, he can ride to the right bank,
about 15 km one way. Expensive as river taxis are private.
City bus traffic is intense, the buses are spacious.
Various taxi
services.
There are practically no "traffic jams" in Amursk.
The main stores are located on Pobedy Avenue (grocery: "Samberi", "Rainbow"; industrial: shopping center "Irina"); Komsomolsky prospect (food: No. 28, 31, "777", "Amba"; industrial: "Atlant", "Pallada").
Amursk, compared to Komsomolsk, is a calm and quite safe city.
In the 1970s - 1980s. Amursk was a city of "chemists" - prisoners on
parole who served the rest of their sentences at enterprises and
construction sites of the national economy. It was not safe to walk the
streets in the evening. Since the 1990s the buildings of the special
commandant's offices and the former dormitories of the "chemists" are
abandoned.
The climate of Amursk is no different from
Komsomolsk-on-Amur. In winter, dress well.
The city is located in the northeast of the Middle Amur lowland, on the left bank of the Amur, more precisely, at the intersection of its left-bank channels of the Old Amur, Padalinskaya, Galbon and Sandinskaya, 328 km north of Khabarovsk, 45 km south of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. In fact, his industrial satellite. The city stretches along the Sandinsky channel for 14 km and consists of two almost equal districts.
In 1958,
the construction of a tent camp for the first builders began in the
village of Padali-Vostochnoye (the original name of Amursk), where
young people arrived on vouchers from the Khabarovsk Regional
Committee of the Komsomol for the construction of the Komsomolsk
Pulp and Cardboard Mill.
In September 1960, the Central
Committee of the Komsomol announced the construction of the Amur
pulp and cardboard mill and Amursk as an All-Union shock Komsomol
construction site. In 1962, the village of Amursk became a regional
center. In 1973, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme
Soviet of the RSFSR, the working village of Amursk was transformed
into a city of regional subordination. In 1983, the furniture
factory of the Amur Timber Industry Complex was put into operation.
In the early 1990s, the plant became known as the Amur Furniture and
Woodworking Plant.
Amur Hydrometallurgical Plant (AGMK LLC), owned by Polymetal, the
main task is the further processing using autoclave technology (for the
first time in Russia) of flotation concentrates from the Albazino,
Polina Osipenko and Mayskoye deposits to produce gold.
Plant for the
manufacture of cartridges "Vympel".
A plant for the production of
peeled veneer, managed by one of the enterprises of the timber industry
holding RFP Group, OAO Dallesprom. (Works and actively recruits
employees)
Electricity and heat energy for the city is generated by the Amurskaya CHPP.
The main object of
environmental problems in the city was the Amur Pulp and Cardboard
Plant, which went bankrupt in 2003; after the dismantling of its
workshops in 2012, the environmental situation in Amursk stabilized.
Regional Khabarovsk youth ecological public organization "ECHO".
LLC Regional Ecological Center for Demercurization.
Education
Seven schools, of which one is elementary
Seven kindergartens
Amur
Polytechnic College
Children and Youth Sports School
Center of
creativity "Temp"
Children and Youth Center "Youth of Russia"
Children's music school
Children's Art School
Art school
NNUDO
"Linguistic School"
NUDO "School of Foreign Languages" Loza ""
Mobile communication operators MTS, Beeline, MegaFon,
Yota operate in the city.
Internet providers - SAT-DV LLC and
Dalsvyaz (entered into Rostelecom).
Radio stations
Love Radio and Retro FM broadcast in Amursk.
Digital and cable TV -
Takt LLC, Dalsvyaz, SAT-DV LLC. Two local channels broadcast in the
city: "AMV" and TRK "Amursk"
Since 2005, the regional closed festival of children's and youth films and television "Hit of the season" has been held
The average annual
temperature is -0.2 °C
The average annual air humidity is 72%.
The
average annual wind speed is 3.1 m/s.
The city of Amursk is
equated with the regions of the Far North, although it lies at the
latitude of Kyiv. The city is located in the temperate zone. The climate
is continental with monsoonal outlines. Winters are cold and even harsh,
with low snow cover, usually not exceeding half a meter. Summer is very
warm (even hot in June) and quite rainy. The monsoon starts from the
beginning of July and ends by the beginning of September, at this time
there are often showers with thunderstorms. Climatic summer (with an
average daily temperature above +15 C°) begins in early June and ends in
early September. A stable snow cover is formed after 10 November. Snow
begins to melt abundantly in early April, but snowfall is possible
throughout the month. They are also possible even at the beginning of
May.
Children and Youth Sports School, more than 10 sections: swimming,
volleyball, basketball, boxing, powerlifting, fencing, football. Near
the Youth Sports School is the stadium "Youth".
School "Youth"
District public organization "Kyokushinkai karate-do".
Center for
tourism and excursions: rock climbing, orienteering
More than 20
sports tournaments and competitions are held annually in the city.
School No. 3 students are gold (2018) and silver (2019) winners of
the regional Presidential sports competitions.
In 2018, the
sports festival "I love Amursk Sportivny" was established in the city.
Famous Russian athletes came to the city to hold master classes and
tournaments: Dmitry Sychev, Petr Samoylenko.