Sayanogorsk (until 1975 - the village of Oznachennoe) is a city in Russia, in the Republic of Khakassia. The administrative center of the urban district is the city of Sayanogorsk. It ranks third in the region in terms of area and population.
At the beginning of the 18th century, in the Yenisei valley, the proposed site for the construction of the Sayan prison was designated (“marked on the ground”). This projected prison was not built, and the village that emerged in the designated place was named Ozhennoe. As a result of industrial development, the village in 1975 was transformed into a city, which was given the name Sayanogorsk, reflecting the position of the city at the foot of the Sayan Mountains, at the exit of the Yenisei from the Sayan corridor.
It was founded on November 6, 1975 in connection
with the construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power
station and the Sayan aluminum plant on the site of the village of
Oznachenny, which existed since the beginning of the 19th century.
The fortress of the Yenisei Kyrgyz Omai-Tura (hence the Russian
Maino, the name of the Maino threshold) closed the passage along the
Yenisei to the Khakass-Minusinsk depression. In its place, the
Russian authorities founded the Sayan prison.
The village of
Oznachennoye, standing on the left bank of the Yenisei, has a long
history. "The designated point is the border of the Russian state,"
- this is how it is written in historical documents. There was a
border post and a watchtower of the Cossacks, and Khakass
settlements were located nearby. In 1830, peasants from the village
of Ochury, the father and sons of the Solomatovs, founded the
village of Ozachennoye in the Shushensky volost of the Minusinsky
district at the Mainsky threshold. According to other sources, Peter
the First ordered to build a prison at the entrance of the Yenisei
to the steppe, protecting the southern borders of Siberia and the
new subjects of the Russian Empire (Khakass) from the raids of the
Tuvinians and Mongols, by decree of 1711. Having indicated a place
on the map and ordered ... "to build a prison and designate this
place!"
A new page in the history of the Significant began
with the arrival of prospectors and builders of the
Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP. In 1965, a temporary settlement for
construction and assembly train builders was founded nearby. In
1968, the construction of large-panel housing construction was
launched: five-story buildings began to grow rapidly, industrial
infrastructure facilities were created, and a village council was
formed. In the 1970s. industrial and civil construction is expanding
even more. In 1973 the plant "Sayanmramor" began to produce products
on the basis of the Kibik-Kordonsky and Sayan deposits of marble and
granite.
The unfolding construction of the
Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric station gave a powerful impetus to
the development of the productive forces of this region and the
growth of urban settlements. In a short time, urban-type settlements
such as Cheryomushki (a settlement of hydro-builders) and
Oznachennoe (on the site of the former village) arose, which
together with the urban-type settlement Maina in 1975 became the
basis for the formation of the city of Sayanogorsk.
Museum of Local Lore of Sayanogorsk. The fund of the museum has 28,900 units of main and auxiliary storage. Some of the exhibits are presented at permanent exhibitions in the Hall of Antiquities and the Hall of Military Glory.