Inta
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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.[3]
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.[4] As a municipal division, the town of republic significance of Inta is incorporated as Inta Urban Okrug.[5]
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[6]
References
Notes
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Sources
- Script error: No such module "Lang". (State Council of the Komi Republic. Law #13-RZ of March 6, 2006 On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of the Komi Republic, as amended by the Law #171-RZ of December 26, 2014 On Abolishing the Inhabited Locality of Verkhnyaya Sedka Located on the Territory of Priluzsky District of the Komi Republic, and on Amending Various Laws of the Komi Republic Accordingly. Effective as of the official publication date.).
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External links
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