Aerial photography shows Sayanogorsk, a young industrial city that arose in 1975 around the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station and the Sayan aluminum plant. The video reveals the contrast between the largest industries in the region and the relative poverty of the local population, demonstrating the impact of industrialization on the development of the city near the Yenisei River.
- Duration
- 18 min 11 s
- Start
- Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Station
- End
- Shushenskoe
- Stops
- 4
- Channel author
- НАД ГОРОДАМИ
Timestamps and places
- — Yenisei River & 1960s fishing traditions
- — Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Station (Sayano-Shushenskaya Hydroelectric Station construction)
- — Khakassia's richest industrial enterprises
- — Sayanogorsk City (Sayanogorsk city overview)
- — Regional distances (Abakan 100km, Krasnoyarsk 500km, Moscow 4500km)
- — City center on Lenin Street
- — Khakass steppes and mountains geography
- — Paleolithic history; sea 20,000 years ago
- — Sayanogorsk formed 1975; youngest city in Russia
- — Major marble deposits nearby
- — Municipal settlements: Cheremushki, Mayna, Bogoslovka
- — Mayna Hydroelectric Station water regulation
- — Yenisei River water level management
- — Yenisei flows 300km through Khakassia
- — Yenisei among world's five most full-flowing rivers
- — Sayan Aluminum Factory history & production
- — Khakass Aluminum Factory (Khakass Aluminum Factory built 2007)
- — Both factories 12km from city in steppe
- — National flag graffiti on dam (2020)
- — Shushenskoe (Shushenskoe village & Lenin exile history)
- — Reservoir basin larger than Greece
- — August 17, 2009 hydroelectric disaster reference
Route on the map
OVER SAYANOGORSK. A POOR CITY NEAR A RICH FACTORY