Amursk, Russia, Asia
 
 
Year1958latitude: 50° 13'
longitude: 136° 54'
Period
Initiator(s)
Planning organization
Nationality initiator(s)
Designer(s) / Architect(s)
Design organizationLeningrad State Institute for Urban Development
Inhabitants45,000 (2010)
Target population
Town websitehttp://www.amursk.ru/
Town related linkshttp://www.khabkrai.ru/about/amursky.html
http://www.amkcity.ru/
Literature

type of New Town: > scale of autonomy
New-Town-in-Town
Satellite
New Town
Company Town
> client
Private Corporation
Public Corporation
> policy
Capital
Decentralization
Industrialization
Resettlement
Economic
 

source: http://rosmaps.ru/russia/habarovskii-krai/amursk/karta-amursk-doma.html


At its founding in 1958, the settlement was designated an urban-type settlement. Town status was granted to it in 1973. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the population has shrunk by around 20%.

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