Bratsk
city in eastern Russia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bratsk (Russian: Братск, IPA: [bratsk]) is a city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. It is on the Angara River near the Bratsk Reservoir.
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History
The first Europeans went to the area in 1623 to get taxes from the local Buryat people. Permanent settlement started with the building of an ostrog (fortress). This fortress was built in 1631 at the junction of the Oka and Angara rivers.[7]
During World War II, Siberia became more industrialized. This was because the Soviet Union wanted to move its industry to the area east of the Ural Mountains.
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Twin towns and sister cities
Bratsk is twinned with:
Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Zibo, Shandong, China
Notable people
- Yevgeni Balyaikin (born 1988), association football player
- Roman Bugayev (born 1989), association football player
- Fedor Chudinov (born 1987), professional boxer
- Alexander Kasjanov (born 1983), bobsledder
- Vladimir Krasnov (born 1990), sprint athlete
- Jessica Long, Paralympic gold medal winner
- Marina Pankova (1963–2015), volleyball player, Olympic and world champion
- Semen Pavlichenko (born 1991), luger
- Valentina Popova (born 1972), weightlifter, world and European champion
- Alexandra Rodionova (born 1984), bobsledder and luger
- Alexandr Zubkov (born 1972), bobsledder
References
Other websites
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