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Vilyuchinsk
Sign in to savethumb|Satellite imagery of Vilyuchinsk prior to the 2025 Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake Vilyuchinsk () is a closed town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the Kamchatka Peninsula about across Avacha Bay from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Population:
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Vilyuchinsk
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Вилючинск
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Вилючинск.JPG
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- left
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coats of Arms of Viluchinsk.svg
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag of Viluchinsk.svg
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Kamchatka Krai
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_city_jur
- Vilyuchinsk Town Under Krai Jurisdiction
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of
- Vilyuchinsk Town Under Krai Jurisdiction
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_okrug_jur
- Vilyuchinsky Urban Okrug
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of
- Vilyuchinsky Urban Okrug
- Russian inhabited locality.leader_title
- Mayor
- Russian inhabited locality.leader_name
- Alexey Sova
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 22905
- Russian inhabited locality.established_date
- October 16, 1968
- Russian inhabited locality.postal_codes
- 684090–684093
- Russian inhabited locality.dialing_codes
- 41535
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Kamchatka Oblast
- Population
- 21834
- Area
- 404
- Elevation
- 10
- Time zone
- UTC+12:00
- Official website
- viluchinsk-city.ru
- Image
- Вилючинск.JPG
- Dialing code
- 41535
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- native label
- Советский
- inception
- 1968-01-01
- postal code
- 684090–684093
- Commons category
- Vilyuchinsk
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Administrative and municipal status
- Economy
- Religion
- References
- Notes
- Sources
- External links
thumb|Satellite imagery of Vilyuchinsk prior to the 2025 Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake Vilyuchinsk () is a closed town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the Kamchatka Peninsula about across Avacha Bay from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Population:
==History== It was founded as Sovetsky () on October 16, 1968 through the amalgamation of three earlier settlements which supplied the Soviet Navy and served as a base for submarine construction: Rybachy, Primorsky, and Seldevaya. In 1970, as with other closed towns in the Soviet Union, it was given a code name based on the nearest major city, becoming known officially as Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky-50 until 1994. In 1994, the town was renamed after the nearby volcano, Vilyuchik.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vilyuchinsk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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