Cheremkhovo ( rus, Черемхо́во, p=tɕɪrʲɪmˈxovə) is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares ...
in
Irkutsk Oblast
Irkutsk Oblast (russian: Ирку́тская о́бласть, Irkutskaya oblast; bua, Эрхүү можо, Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and ...
,
Russia
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, located on the
Trans-Siberian Railway
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.
History
Cheremkhovo was founded in 1772.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Cheremkhovo serves as 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, L ...
of
Cheremkhovsky District
Cheremkhovsky District (russian: Черемхо́вский райо́н) is an administrative district, one of the thirty-three in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.Charter of Irkutsk Oblast, Article 13 Municipally, it is incorporated as Cheremkhovsk ...
,
[Law #49-OZ] even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the
Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than city, cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares ...
of Cheremkhovo
[Charter of Irkutsk Oblast]—an administrative unit with the 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 county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...
. As a
municipal division, the Town of Cheremkhovo is incorporated as Cheremkhovo Urban Okrug.
[Law #104-oz]
Economy
The town is one of the
coal-mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron fro ...
towns in the Irkutsk coal basin.
Notable residents
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Uladzimir Mackievič
Uladzimir Uladzimiravič Mackievič (also Uladzimir Matskevich; be, Уладзімір Уладзіміравіч Мацкевіч; Vladimir Vladimirovich Matskevich, russian: Владимир Владимирович Мацкевич; born 14 Ma ...
(born 1956), Belarusian philosopher, social and political activist, political prisoner
References
Notes
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External links
Official website of CheremkhovoCheremkhovo Business Directory
*Transsib.ru
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Cities and towns in Irkutsk Oblast
Populated places established in 1772
Irkutsk Governorate