Sorsk (khak. Soryk) is a city in Russia, the administrative center of the urban district, the city of Sorsk, Republic of Khakassia. Population: 11,215 (2020).
The name is from local toponymy, based on the Turkic (Khakass) ethnonym Sor or Shor (in Russian it was fixed in the form of Shors).
It is located on the eastern spurs of the Kuznetsk Alatau, 6 km north-west of the Erbinskaya railway station of the Krasnoyarsk railway, 110 km from the capital of the republic, the city of Abakan.
The emergence of the city is associated with the discovery in 1910 of the Sorsk copper-molybdenum deposit. In 1914, the Erbinskaya station on the Achinsko-Minusinsk railway began to work. In 1928-1934 the settlement belonged to the Charkovsky village council (Uybat settlement). In 1935-1954, the Saigachinsky village council was located at the Erbinskaya station of the Ust-Abakan region. In 1939, the construction of a molybdenum plant and a working settlement (village) Sora began. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR dated December 31, 1954, the settlement of Sora in the Ust-Abakan region of the Khakass autonomous region of the Krasnoyarsk Territory was classified as a working settlement with the assignment of the name - the working settlement Dzerzhinsky. On March 3, 1955, the Dzerzhinsky village council of the Ust-Abakan region was formed. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, by a decree of September 15, 1966, transformed the working settlement of Dzerzhinsky, Ust-Abakan District, Khakass Autonomous Region, Krasnoyarsk Territory, into a city of regional subordination, with the assignment of the name - the city of Sorsk. On October 21, 1966, the Sorsk city council of deputies of the Ust-Abakan region was formed. In 2003, the city acquired the status of a municipal formation, and in 2004 received the status of an independent urban district.
The city has four secondary schools, including three secondary ones, a music school, three libraries, four kindergartens, a station for young technicians, a sports complex, and a ski base. Development: private households, two-, four- and five-story houses.
Sorsky production complex (Sorsky mining and processing plant, Sorsky ferromolybdenum plant). JSC "Karat-CM" (recycling of used tires (base of the former silicate brick plant).
There is a Sorsk city hospital that provides medical care for therapeutic, surgical, obstetric-gynecological, pediatric profiles, emergency and emergency medical care, resuscitation. If necessary, it can perform the function of a district, serving the population of nearby settlements within a radius of up to 40 km around the city. Chief Physician Yarkin Vasily Gennadievich (2021).
MUK "Sorsky Museum of Local Lore named after I.I. V. V. Andriyasheva,
House of Culture "Metallurg"
Ski base.