Usolye Sibirskoye

Usolye-Sibirskoye is a town in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, positioned on the left financial institution of the Angara River. It became founded in 1669 below the call Usolye, an archaic Russian word for a salt generating city, with the aid of Mikhalevs brothers, the Cossacks who had determined salt deposits in a nearby spring. The Siberian Route became built via the metropolis within the 18th century, followed within the past due 19^th century by using the Trans-Siberian Railway. Town fame turned into granted to it in 1925. The town's name turned into given the extension Sibirskoye Siberian in 1940, to distinguish from the city of Usolye in the Kama River vicinity.

From 1947 until 1953, the metropolis hosted a prison camp of the gulag system. Ever in view that its inception, the main industry of the city has been salt-mining. The commencing of a main mine in 1956 saw the town turn out to be Russia's largest manufacturer of desk salt, in addition to the improvement of associated chemical industries including Usolyekhimprom. There is also heavy machinery meeting, along with mining device produced through the organisation Usolyemash. The city has a station at the Trans-Siberian Railway, it's also placed at the highway from Novosibirsk to Irkutsk. A tram network has operated within the metropolis because the 60s, originally funded by using the salt mine.