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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 KotlasVorkuta 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

References

Notes

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External links

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