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Closed town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia

Town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia

Vilyuchinsk Вилючинск
Town[1]
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Coordinates: 52°55′50″N 158°24′10″E / 52.93056°N 158.40278°E / 52.93056; 158.40278
Country Russia
Federal subject Kamchatka Krai
Founded October 16, 1968
Government
• Mayor Alexey Sova
Elevation 10 m (30 ft)
Population (2010 Census)[2]
• Total 22,905
Administrative status
• Subordinated to Vilyuchinsk Town Under Krai Jurisdiction[1]
• Capital of Vilyuchinsk Town Under Krai Jurisdiction[1]
Municipal status
• Urban okrug Vilyuchinsky Urban Okrug[3]
• Capital of Vilyuchinsky Urban Okrug[3]
Time zone UTC+12 (MSK+9 Edit this on Wikidata[4])
Postal code(s)[5] 684090–684093
Dialing code(s) +7 41535
OKTMO ID 30735000001
Website www.viluchinsk-city.ru

Vilyuchinsk (Russian: Вилючинск) is a closed town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the Kamchatka Peninsula about 20 kilometers (12 mi) across Avacha Bay from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Population: 22,905 (2010 Census);[2] 24,166 (2002 Census).[6]

It was founded as Sovetsky (Сове́тский) on October 16, 1968 through the amalgamation of three earlier settlements which supplied the Soviet Navy and served as a base for submarine construction: Rybachy, Primorsky, and Seldevaya.[_citation needed_] In 1970, as with other closed towns in the Soviet Union, it was given a code name based on the nearest major city, becoming known officially as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-50 until 1994. In 1994, the town was renamed after the nearby volcano, Vilyuchik.

Administrative and municipal status

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Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as **Vilyuchinsk Town Under Krai Jurisdiction**—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[1] As a municipal division, Vilyuchinsk Town Under Krai Jurisdiction is incorporated as Vilyuchinsky Urban Okrug.[3]

Besides the construction of nuclear submarines, the town's economy is largely reliant on fishing and processing of fish. In the suburb of Rybachy, one of the three original settlements from which the town was created, a squadron of submarines of the Pacific Fleet has been based since August 1938. The local ship-repair industry began to develop in late 1959.

Despite plans for the navy base to be closed in 2003 due to lack of finances, this has continued to operate. The base had been modernized in the late 2000s with newly constructed residential buildings, a hospital, nursery school, and a sports center with a water park opened in 2007 personally by President Vladimir Putin.[7]

Two Russian Orthodox churches were built in the 1990s, the first in the town.

  1. ^ a b c d Law #46
  2. ^ a b Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  3. ^ a b c Law #242
  4. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  5. ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  6. ^ Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
  7. ^ "Media: Vilyuchinsk Base Cannot Accommodate New Borei Subs" Archived May 14, 2012, at the Wayback Machine