Kiselyovsk (russian: Киселёвск) is a

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Kemerovo Oblast Kemerovo Oblast — Kuzbass (russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть — Кузба́сс, translit=Kemerovskaya oblast — Kuzbass, ), also known simply as Kemerovo Oblast (russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть, label=non ...

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, located in the foothill belt of the

Salair Ridge Salair Ridge (pronounced ''sah-lah-EER''; russian: Салаирский кряж) is an eroded plateau-type highland in the Southwestern Siberia, Russia, particularly in Altai Krai, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk Oblast. It is a natural continuation of A ...

, at the source of the Aba River, south of

Kemerovo Kemerovo ( rus, Ке́мерово, p=ˈkʲemʲɪrəvə) is an industrial city and the administrative center of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Iskitimka and Tom Rivers, in the major coal mining region of the Kuznetsk Ba ...

. Population: The Kuzbass region, where Kiselyovsk is located, supplies 60% of Russia's coal, and the town suffers from heavy pollution due to the dominance of the coal mining and processing industries. The

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leads to a phenomenon known as "black snow". Another danger is spontaneous combustion of discarded coal.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with five rural localities, incorporated as Kiselyovsk Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the

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.Law #215-OZ As a municipal divisions, Kiselyovsk Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as Kiselyovsky Urban Okrug.Law #104-OZ

History

Residents of the town and Russian rights groups have campaigned for several years for the Russia government to move the city away from the immediate outskirts of the mine due to the extreme levels of pollution. In September 2019, a number of the town's residents lobbied the Canadian government to grant them status as environmental refugees.

Notable people

Vadim Bakatin Vadim Viktorovich Bakatin (russian: link=no, Вадим Викторович Бакатин; 6 November 1937 – 31 July 2022) was a Russian politician who served as the last chairman of the KGB in 1991. He was the last surviving former chairma ...

(1937–2022), politician * Bohdan Bandura (born 1960), football midfielder *

Sergey Dolmatov Sergey Viktorovich Dolmatov (born February 20, 1959) is a Russian Grandmaster of chess and former World Junior Chess Champion. Born in Kiselevsk in the former Soviet Union, Dolmatov's solid yet enterprising style of play was soon to launch hi ...

(born 1959), chess grandmaster * Aleksei Perminov (born 1968), footballer *

Mikhail Shivlyakov Mikhail Vasilyevich Shivlyakov (russian: Михаил Васильевич Шивляков; born 30 April 1980) is a former Russian Marine currently competing as a professional strongman. Early life Shivlyakov was born on April 30, 1980 i ...

(born 1980), strongman *

Serhiy Tkach Serhiy Fedorovich Tkach ( uk, Сергій Федорович Ткач, russian: Серге́й Фёдорович Ткач; September 15, 1952 – November 4, 2018), also known as Sergey Tkach, was a Ukrainian police officer and serial killer wh ...

(1952–2018), serial killer

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External links

Unofficial website of Kiselyovsk
{{Use mdy dates, date=October 2012 __NOTOC__ Cities and towns in Kemerovo Oblast