Tayshet
Tayshet
Тайшет | |
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Location of Tayshet  | |
  Tayshet Location of Tayshet  Tayshet Tayshet (Irkutsk Oblast) | |
| Coordinates: 55°56′N 98°1′E / 55.933°N 98.017°E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Irkutsk Oblast |
| Founded | 1897 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Aleksandr Saika |
| Elevation | 320 m (1,050 ft) |
| • Capital of | Tayshet District |
| • Urban okrug | Tayshet Urban Okrug |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (MSK+5  [1]) |
| Postal code(s)[2] | 66500x |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 39563 |
| OKTMO ID | 25636101001 |
| Website | www |
Tayshet (also Taishet, Russian: Тайше́т, meaning cold river in the Ket language) is a town and a railroad junction in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. Population: 36,880 (2008). Here the Baikal Amur Mainline begins, branching northeast from the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is also on the M53 highway (Moscow to Irkutsk). About 12 km northwest the Trans-Siberian crosses the Biryusa River at Biryusinsk.
History
Tayshet was founded in 1897 as a supply point and station on the Trans-Siberian Railway at route km 4515, around 680 km northwest of Irkutsk and about 400 km east of Krasnoyarsk; the settlement received town status in 1938.
During the period from the 1930s to the 1950s, Tayshet was the administrative centre for gulag labour camps Oserlag and Angarstroy. Construction of the first section of the BAM started in 1937 and was managed from here. According to some survivor accounts, between Tayshet and Bratsk there is "a dead man under every sleeper." Along with Japanese prisoners from the Kwantung Army, German prisoners of war formed a large proportion of the forced labour contingent, generally under a 25-year sentence. The Germans were repatriated in autumn of 1955, after West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's visit to Moscow.
Picture gallery
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Tayshet railway station (before reconstruction) -
Tayshet railway station
References
- ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
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