Minusinsk

Minusinsk is a city (since 1822) in Russia, the administrative center of the Minusinsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Population of 68.7 thousand people (2005).
The city is located on the right bank of the Yenisei duct, 12 km from the railway station of the same name and 25 km from Abakan.
History
Minusinsk was founded in 1739 on the river Minus, as the village of Minusinskoye (later Minusinskoye), which in 1822 received the status of a city. In Minusinsk lived workers Lukaz copper smelting and Irbinsk ironworks.
After the closure of the Lukaz factory, the settlement fell into decline and objected in 1775-1776, when the mass resettlement of peasants from the northern regions of Siberia began. In 1797, the village of Minusinskoye became a volost center. In 1794, the population of Minusinsky was 212 male souls.
After the formation of the Yenisei province in 1822, Minusinsk received the status of a district center. In 1823, 787 people lived in the city, 156 of them were exiles.
The city received active development in the 30-40 years of the XIX century during the gold rush. Gold placers were opened along the rivers Kizir, Amyl, Us, Abakan. Minusin merchants to the north fused bread and livestock (for gold miners), to the south carried industrial goods. Capital appears in the city, which is invested in construction, trade, production, education, culture. Main industry: candle, soap-making, salotope, flour milling, distilleries and factories. In the second half of the 1850s, seven of the fourteen merchants of the higher guilds were engaged in gold mining.
Table: Number of merchants in Minusinsk
Table: retail trade in Minusinsk
On May 5, 1875, the first elections to the City Duma were held in Minusinsk. The first city head was chosen merchant 1 guild Ivan Gavrilovich Gusev.
In 1898, Minusinsk became a county center. In 1897, it was home to 10,231 people.
By the beginning of the XX century, Minusinsk was a typical merchant city. In 1897, the Vvedensky Fair was established in Minusinsk. In 1899, the Minusinsk Treasury registered 169 outlets. Since 1911, three fairs have been held in Minusinsk - Sretenskaya (2-6 February), Petrovsky (28 June - 3 July), Nikolskaya (1-5 December).
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The shield is divided into two equal parts, in the upper half the Yenisei provincial coat of arms is depicted ("In a scarlet shield a golden lion with azure eyes and tongue and black claws, holding a golden shovel in his right paw, in the left one of the same sickle"), and in the lower, on an azure field, a running horse. The shield is decorated with a golden city crown.
The coat of arms was approved on December 16, 1854.
Place of reference
Minusinsk was a place of political exile.
* From 1827 to 1861, the Decembrists S. G. Krasnokutsky, brothers A. P. and P. P. Belyaev, S. I. Krivtsov and others lived in the city;
* In 1860, exiled revolutionary M. V. Butashevich-Petrashevsky lived in Minusinsk;
Since the 1870s – Narodniks, Social Democrats (Bolsheviks and Mensheviks);
Vladimir Lenin repeatedly visited Minusinsk during his stay in Shushenskoye;
In 1902-1903 in Minusinsk lived Amphitheaters, Alexander Valentinovich;
In 1909-1911, A. A. Lopukhin, the former director of the Police Department, was exiled to Minusinsk. In 1911, by permission of the governor of the Yenisei province Y.D. Bologovsky moved to Krasnoyarsk;
In 1913, ethnographer Adrianov A.V. was exiled to Minusinsk;
During the Stalinist repressions, the historian A. I. Yakovlev lived in exile in the city.
Culture
The main attraction of the city is the Martyanov Museum of Local History, founded in 1877 (one of the oldest in Russia). At the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, the exposition of the museum was awarded a diploma and a silver medal.
In 1878, by the decision of the City Duma, a local public library was opened at the museum.
In 1880, a progymnasium was opened in the city, later transformed into a gymnasium. Also in the city worked: three-class school (for boys), two parish schools and two Sunday schools. In 1913, a teacher seminary and a real school began to work.
In 1882, the Amateur Theatre Society was established - now the Minusinsky Drama Theatre. The first performance “Without Guilt” was staged in 1882. On the stage of the Minusinsky Drama Theatre, he staged his plays and played in them by the writer V.G. Jan (Yanchevetsky).
The first printing house opened in Minusinsk in 1888. In 1906, the first newspaper "Telegraph and Post" was published in Minusinsk.
Also in the city there is a Museum of Decembrists and Memorial Museum "Apartment of G.M. Krzhizhanovsky and V.V. Starkov".
Industry
Enterprises of light and food industry, plant "Electrocomplex" (high-voltage equipment).
Transportation
Through Minusinsk pass railway lines Abakan-Taishet, Abakan-Achinsk. Highways: Usinsky tract connecting Abakan - Kyzyl, motorway "Yenisei" (highway M-54) Krasnoyarsk - Divnogorsk - Abakan - Minusinsk.
The nearest airport is in Abakan (35 km).
Sport
The most popular sport in Minusinsk is judo. Also developed: boxing, weightlifting, rhythmic gymnastics, football, hockey, orienteering.
The city operates the Sports Children and Youth School of the Olympic Reserve (Yushor) in judo.
From February 3 to March 9, 1986, the VI Winter Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR was held in Minusinsk.