Usolye (russian: Усо́лье) 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 ...

and 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 is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

of Usolsky District in

Perm Krai Perm Krai (russian: Пе́рмский край, r=Permsky kray, p=ˈpʲɛrmskʲɪj ˈkraj, ''Permsky krai'', , ''Perem lador'') is a federal subject of Russia (a krai) that came into existence on December 1, 2005 as a result of the 2004 re ...

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, located on the right bank of the

Kama River The Kama (russian: Ка́ма, ; tt-Cyrl, Чулман, ''Çulman''; udm, Кам) is a long«Река � ...

, opposite of the city of

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and north of

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, the administrative center of the

krai A krai or kray (; russian: край, , ''kraya'') is one of the types of federal subjects of modern Russia, and was a type of geographical administrative division in the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR. Etymologically, the word is relat ...

. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 5,694.

History

It was founded in 1606 as a salt mining settlement of Novoye Usolye () and grew into a major salt mining center by the beginning of the 19th century. Until the end of the 18th century, it remained the

Stroganov family The Stroganovs or Strogonovs (russian: link=no, Стро́гановы, Стро́гоновы), French spelling: Stroganoff, were a family of highly successful Russian merchants, industrialists, landowners, and statesmen. From the time of Ivan ...

's main locality on the

Kama River The Kama (russian: Ка́ма, ; tt-Cyrl, Чулман, ''Çulman''; udm, Кам) is a long«Река � ...

. In 1895, there were forty salt wells. In 1923, Usolye became the administrative center of

Verkhnekamsky District Verkhnekamsky District (russian: Верхнека́мский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #203-ZO and municipalLaw #284-ZO district (raion), one of the thirty-nine in Kirov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the oblast. T ...

of Ural Oblast. Between 1932 and 1940, it was a part of the town of Berezniki. It was granted town status in 1940. Due to the construction of

Kama Reservoir The Kama Reservoir, also known as the Perm Reservoir (russian: Камское водохранилище, Пермское водохранилище), is a reservoir formed by the dam of the Kama Hydroelectric Station near Perm (constructed in ...

, a portion of the town was flooded.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Usolye serves as the

of Usolsky District, to which it is directly subordinated.Law #416-67 As a municipal division, the

of Usolye, together with forty-eight rural localities, is incorporated within Usolsky Municipal District as Usolskoye Urban Settlement.Law #1985-435

Demographics

Culture

Some architectural monuments of note include the Savior Cathedral (1724–1731) with a separate bell tower (1730); the house of the

Stroganovs The Stroganovs or Strogonovs (russian: link=no, Стро́гановы, Стро́гоновы), French spelling: Stroganoff, were a family of highly successful Russian merchants, industrialists, landowners, and statesmen. From the time of Ivan ...

, and

Galitzine The House of Golitsyn or Galitzine was one of the largest princely of the noble houses in the Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire. Among them were boyars, warlords, diplomats, generals (the Mikhailovichs), stewards, chamberlains, the richest ...

homestead (1818), which houses an architectural and ethnographic museum. There are several churches and mansions near the town.

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History of Usolye
{{Authority control Cities and towns in Perm Krai Solikamsky Uyezd Populated places on the Kama River