Ust-Ilimsk City Administration

Ust-Ilimsk is a city in the north-west of the Irkutsk region on the Angara River, the administrative center of the Ust-Ilimsk district of the Irkutsk region. The permanent population is 96,311 people (as of January 1, 2010). The area of ​ ​ the city is 229 km2.

Distance to cities (km):

• Bratsk 270
• Irkutsk 1000
• Magadan 2800
• Beijing 3000
• Vladivostok - 3020
• Moscow - 4000
• Helsinki 4250
• Tokyo 4500
• Bonn 5400
• Berlin 5700
• Rome 6700

History of the city

Ust-Ilimsk was known throughout the country as a city of three shock Komsomol construction projects:

• the city of Ust-Ilimsk,
• Ust-Ilim HPP and
• Ust-Ilimsky LPK.

None of the great construction projects of the Soviet era left such a mark in the hearts of people as the construction of Ust-Ilimsk. The whole country knew about her. A. Pakhmutova's song "Letter to Ust-Ilim" was sung in every house. The city became a symbol of taiga romance and all the turbulent era of the 1960s and 70s. The beginning of the formation of the city of Ust-Ilimsk can be considered 1965, when the executive committee of the Irkutsk Regional Council of Workers' Deputies approved the working village of Ust-Ilim as part of the Bratsk district.

In 1968, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, the Ust-Ilimsky district was formed (from territories alienated from the Bratsk and Nizhne-Ilimsky districts) with a center in the working village of Ust-Ilim.

In 1973, the Ust-Ilim labor village was given the status of a city of regional subordination. December 27, 1973 is considered the Day of the formation of the city of Ust-Ilimsk.

Natural and climatic conditions

The town is in an area equated to the Far North. The climate is sharply continental and is characterized by long, little snow and cold winters and short, warm, rainy summers.

The average annual temperature is -3.9 degrees. With The absolute minimum temperature is -56 deg. With

The average duration of stable frosts is 147 days, the snow cover lasts for 190-195 days.

Permafrost reaches 30-40 m and is distributed in the form of large and frequent islands.

Maximum temperature (in July) + 37 deg. With

The average temperature of the coldest five-day period is 46 degrees. With The average temperature of the warmest month (July) is + 24 degrees. With

Duration of the period with temperature below + 8 deg. С - 257 days The average annual rainfall is -365 mm Temperature fluctuation amplitude between absolute minimum (-56 deg C) and absolute maximum (+ 42 deg C) reaches 96 deg C.

The duration of the heating period reaches 257 days. Absolute humidity - 5.5 MB, relative humidity - 74%. The standard freezing depth of loamy-clay soils reaches 3.5 m, tuffs and sandy-siltstone Carboniferous rocks - 5.0 m, diabases - 7.0 m.

During the year, south-westerly winds predominate. The number of windless days is small: 75-80 in the cold and 65-70 in the warm period of the year. The average annual wind speed is 1.92 m/s. Strong winds with a speed of more than 10 m/s are observed in the year up to 35 days. The average number of days with fog per year is 44 days. The average annual number of days with a blizzard is 20 days, with a thunderstorm - 18 days.