Tashtagol, Russia

 

Tashtagol is a city, the administrative center of the Tashtagol district of the Kemerovo region of the Russian Federation.

 

Sights

1. The Church of St. George the Victorious - a brick Orthodox church was built in Tashtagol in 1995. In 2002, work was carried out to reconstruct the church.

2. Monument "Golden Shoria" - 6 meter bronze sculpture was made in Italy. In 2010, the grand opening of the monument took place.

3. Tashtagol helicopter - the monument symbolizes the main mode of transport of these places.

4.City park - in a small park there are rides, a fountain, tents with cotton candy.

5. Sports and tourist complex "Sheregesh" - on the territory of the sports complex there are 42 hotels, 15 ski slopes, 17 ski lifts.

 

History

In 1911, a magnetite ore deposit was discovered on the site of the modern city.

From 1931 to 1935, geologists explored the deposit.

In 1939, work began on the construction of the Tashtagol mine.

In 1940, a railway was built from Novokuznetsk to Tashtagol.

In 1941 the mine was put into operation. During the first year, more than 120 thousand tons of iron ore were mined here.

During the Great Patriotic War, ore was supplied to the Kuznetsk Iron and Steel Works, where armor steel for tanks was made.

In the 1960s-1970s, new residential quarters and microdistricts were built in Tashtagol.

In 1970, the first electric train arrived in Tashtagol.

In 1960, a city of regional subordination was formed from several settlements.

In 1978, a record amount of ore was mined at the Tashtagol deposit - 3.15 million tons.

In 2004, the municipality of Tashtagol district was formed with the capital in Tashtagol. Neighborhoods of the city: Old Tashtagol, Ust-Shalym, Shalym.

 

General information

The city is located on the Kondoma river (a tributary of the Tom), in Tashtagol the Shalym and Kochura rivers flow into Kondoma. It is located 3200 km from Moscow, 310 km from Kemerovo and 120 km from Novokuznetsk.

Geographically, the city is divided into three microdistricts: Tashtagol proper (or Old Tashtagol), Ust-Shalym (in everyday speech - Pospelova, in connection with the name of the longest street in the microdistrict) and Shalym (separated from the main part of the city, located in the direction of the Sheregesh village ).

 

Climate

Tashtagol has a temperate continental climate.

Winters are cold and long. The average temperature in January is -17 degrees.

Summer is moderately warm and short. The average temperature in July is +18.5 degrees.

 

Transport

Tashtagol is the terminal station of the South Kuzbass branch of the West-Siberian Railway. Communication with large stations is carried out by means of the Tashtagol - Novokuznetsk electric train. There are three stations in the city: Kondoma, about. n. 572 km (in the Ust-Shalym microdistrict) and Tashtagol proper (in the old town).

In 2008, the Tashtagol - Turochak highway was opened, connecting the Kemerovo region and the Altai Republic.

Bus communication with Novokuznetsk, Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo, Biysk, Gorno-Altaysk and with the villages of the Tashtagol region.

The local airport operates flights to remote and hard-to-reach villages of the Tashtagol region, as well as neighboring regions - Khakassia and Gorny Altai.

The main type of urban and suburban communication is the buses of the Tashtagol GPATP KO.

As of January 2015, the cost of travel around the city in buses is 15 rubles.

 

Culture

Museum of Ethnography and Nature of Gornaya Shoria. In 2010, a stationary diorama of the Kabyrzin princess necropolis was opened in the museum.

 

Mass media

A television
First channel
Russia 1 / GTRK Kuzbass
Russia 24 / GTRK Kuzbass
NTV / EfirT

radio stations
69.80 VHF - Radio Russia / Radio Kuzbass (silent)
71.69 VHF - Radio Mayak (silent)
98.9 FM - (PLAN) Autoradio
100.7 FM - (PLAN) Radio Vanya
101.7 FM - (PLAN) Radio ENERGY
102.8 FM - Radio Russia / Radio Kuzbass
104.3 FM - Radio Record
107.5 FM - Radio Shoria

 

Honorary citizens of the city

A. M. Tuleev, Governor of the Kemerovo region
Sophronius, Archbishop of Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk
Yuri Arbachakov, 10-time world boxing champion
G. L. Akbulatova, director of the Tashtagol school No. 1
N. D. Simanovskaya, Head of the Department of General Surgery of the Central City Hospital of Tashtagol
N. I. Shatilov, Director for General Affairs of KMK OJSC, former Mayor of Tashtagol
V. I. Kharkovsky, Deputy Head of the Tashtagol District for Road Facilities, Construction and Housing Accounting
V. I. Gromadsky, director of the Tashtagol mine from 1963 to 1985
Yu. S. Aylarov, boxing coach
A. I. Kopytov, Deputy Governor of the Kemerovo Region
V. G. Safonov, head of the mine of the Tashtagol mine
D. S. Pashin, head of the mine of the Kazsky mine
L. A. Svetlyakova, Honored Builder
A. Ya. Sazonov, the first chairman of the Council of Veterans of the city