Inta (, ) is a

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

in the

Komi Republic The Komi Republic (; ), sometimes simply referred to as Komi, is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia situated in the northeast of European Russia. Its capital city, capital is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Syktyvka ...

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. Population:

History

Inta was founded around 1940 as a settlement to support a geological expedition to explore coal deposits and projecting of mines. The city and a separate forced labor camp (

Intalag The Inta Corrective Labor Camp or Intalag (, also abbreviated Intinlag, Intlag, and Intastroy) was a forced labor camp of the Gulag, which existed between 1941 and 1948 near the town of Inta in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Prison ...

) was built by deportees and political prisoners working in the coal mines of the Pechora coal basin. The city's name is in the Nenets language and means 'well-watered place.' During the

Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

era, a " corrective labor camp",

, was located here.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with two

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s ( Verkhnyaya Inta and Kozhym) and twenty rural localities, incorporated as the town of republic significance of Inta—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the

districts A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...

.Law #16-RZ As a municipal division, the town of republic significance of Inta is incorporated as Inta Urban Okrug.Law #11-RZ

Transportation

It is served by the

Inta Airport Inta Airport () is an airport in Komi Republic, Russia located 2 km north of Inta. It services small transport aircraft. History On October 8, 2013, air traffic between Inta and the capital of the republic, Syktyvkar, was resumed. Flig ...

and the

Kotlas Kotlas () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Northern Dvina and Vychegda Rivers. Population: Kotlas is the third-largest town of Arkhangelsk Oblast in terms of p ...

–

Vorkuta Vorkuta (; ; Nenets languages, Nenets for "the abundance of bears", "bear corner") is a coal-mining types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in the Komi Republic, Russia, situated just north of the Arctic Circle in the Pechora coal basin a ...

railway line. Inta is situated on the banks of the river Bolshoya Inta.

Transmitter

At Inta, there is a

CHAYKA Chaika or Chayka, the word for gull in several Slavic languages, may refer to: People * Chaika (surname), a Slavic surname (including a list of people with the name) * Chaika or Chayka, the call sign for astronaut Valentina Tereshkova Places ...

-transmitter with a 460-meter tall guyed mast, which is the second-tallest structure in Europe.

Notable people

*Birthplace of Soviet national hockey team player

Viktor Zhluktov Viktor Vasilievich Zhluktov (, born January 26, 1954) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played for CSKA Moscow and the Soviet Union. He is an Olympic gold and silver medalist, and has won 5 world championships. He played his ...

*Birthplace of Belarusian national hockey team, NHL, and KHL player

Vladimir Tsyplakov Vladimir Viktorovich Tsyplakov (; 18 April 1969 – 14 December 2019) was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player winger. He was drafted in the third round, 59th overall, by the Los Angeles Kings in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. Tsyplakov w ...

References

Notes

Sources

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External links

Official website of Inta

Inta Business Directory
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