Salair (russian: Салаи́р) is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
administratively subordinated to
Guryevsk Guryevsk (russian: Гу́рьевск) is the name of several urban localities in Russia:
*Guryevsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, a town in Guryevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast
*Guryevsk, Kemerovo Oblast, a town in Kemerovo Oblast
Kemerovo Oblast — ...
Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction in
Kemerovo Oblast
Kemerovo Oblast — Kuzbass (russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть — Кузба́сс, translit=Kemerovskaya oblast — Kuzbass, ), also known simply as Kemerovo Oblast (russian: Ке́меровская о́бласть, label=non ...
,
Russia
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, located 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 ...
, the
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune
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of the
oblast
An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdom of ...
. Population:
History
It was founded in 1626 as the village of Salairskoye () on the
Malaya Tolmovaya River. Town status was granted to it in 1941.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with two
rural localities, incorporated as the
town of district significance
Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia. It is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town (as opposed to a ...
of Salair, which is subordinated to
Guryevsk Guryevsk (russian: Гу́рьевск) is the name of several urban localities in Russia:
*Guryevsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, a town in Guryevsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast
*Guryevsk, Kemerovo Oblast, a town in Kemerovo Oblast
Kemerovo Oblast — ...
Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with a status equal to that of the
districts
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
.
[Law #215-OZ] As a
municipal division, the town of district significance of Salair is incorporated within Guryevsky Municipal District as Salairskoye Urban Settlement.
[Law #104-OZ]
See also
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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 ...
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Cities and towns in Kemerovo Oblast
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