Usinsk (, Uskar) is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia, located 757 km east of the republic's capital city of Syktyvkar and 100 km north of the town of Pechora, on the northern bank of the Usa River, 30 km before its confluence with the Pechora River. Population:

History

Usinsk was founded in 1966 as a settlement at the newly discovered deposits of petroleum in the north of the Komi Republic. Town status was granted to it in 1984.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, together with the urban-type settlement of Parma and eighteen rural localities, incorporated as the town of republic significance of Usinsk—It is an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of republic significance of Usinsk is incorporated as Usinsk Urban Okrug.

Economy

The town is the center for the production of oil and gas in the Komi Republic. Three quarters of all the oil produced in the republic comes from the fields in the territory around Usinsk. In 1980, the town was connected to the Pechora Railway by a 108 km long sidetrack.

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