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Baykalsk
Sign in to saveBaykalsk () is a town in Slyudyansky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located from Slyudyanka, the administrative center of the district. Population:
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Baykalsk
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Байкальск
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Street in Baikalsk.jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- In Baykalsk
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- top
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag_of_Baykalskoe_(Irkutsk_oblast).svg
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Irkutsk Oblast
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Slyudyansky District
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Slyudyansky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Baykalskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of
- Baykalskoye Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 13583
- Russian inhabited locality.established_date
- 1961
- Russian inhabited locality.current_cat_date
- 1966
- Russian inhabited locality.postal_codes
- 665930, 665932
- Russian inhabited locality.dialing_codes
- 39542
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Population
- 13199
- Area
- 819.25
- Elevation
- 460
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Image
- Прибрежный район.jpg
- Dialing code
- 39542
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- Commons category
- Baykalsk
- postal code
- 665932
- inception
- 1961-01-01
- native label
- Байкальск
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Encyclopedic overview
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Baykalsk () is a town in Slyudyansky District of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located from Slyudyanka, the administrative center of the district. Population:
==History== Baykalsk was founded in 1961 concomitant with the building of a paper mill there, called Baykalsk Paper and Pulp Mills. In 1966 the mill became operational, and the settlement received "city" status. At its peak, the mill employed about 3,500 people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Baykalsk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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