Английская Википедия:Inta
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Other uses Шаблон:Infobox Russian inhabited locality Inta (Шаблон:Lang-ru, Шаблон:Lang-kv) is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia. Population: Шаблон:Ru-census
History
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.[1]
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.
Administrative and municipal status
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.[2] As a municipal division, the town of republic significance of Inta is incorporated as Inta Urban Okrug.[3]
Transportation
It is served by the Inta Airport and the Kotlas–Vorkuta railway line. Inta is situated on the banks of the river Bolshoya Inta.
Transmitter
At Inta, there is a CHAYKA-transmitter with a 460-meter tall guyed mast, which is the second-tallest structure in Europe.
Notable people
- Birthplace of Soviet national hockey team player Viktor Zhluktov
- Birthplace of Belarusian national hockey team, NHL, and KHL player Vladimir Tsyplakov[4]
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External links
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- ↑ Law #16-RZ
- ↑ Law #11-RZ
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