Our town.
We live in Usinsk. It’s a small town with
the population of about 60 thousand people situated near the river Usa in the
north-east of the Komi Republic. Usinsk is young it was founded in 1975. It is
a multinational town, the people of many nationalities live here - the Russians,
the Ukranians, the Tatars, the Komis, the Bashkirs and so on.
The climate is severe, the winter is cold
and long it lasts for 6-8 months, the spring and the summer are short and cool.
Usinsk district is rich in oil, so they
get oil here. There are many industrial enterprises in it connected with oil
extraction, they are «Komineft», «Arkhangelsk Negtegaz» and others. There are
some joint - ventures such as «NobelOil», «KomiArcticOil», «KomiQuest» and
others where the specialists from Canada, the USA, Great Britain, France work.
In autumn 1994 our Usinsk became world - known as the town where the greatest
ecological catastrophy took place. The old oil pipeline was broken, a lot of
oil and products streamed on and in the ground, flew into the rivers and their
tributaries. The news has quickly spread in the world, many foreign
correspondents visited Usinsk in November 1994. «Green Peace» called this a
great ecological catastrophe but our Komi oil bosses called it only a local
incident without much consequences. The rescue operation I has been done to
clean the banks of the rivers and the nearest places covered (polluted) with
oil and oil products. The old broken pipeline was changed with the new one. I
think, it’s such an unpleasant event in the life of our town.
As our town is young we have no theatres
and museums, historical and memorial places. But we have a cinema, the Palace
of Technics a swimming-pool, a hockey stadium, the House for Schoolchildren
where there are a lot of different clubs, studios for teenagers and a lot of
pupils attend them.
There is also a musical and art school,
seven schools, many kindergartens. There is an airport and a railway station
and our people can go to Moscow, Syktyvkar, Ufa, Kazan by plane and by train.
Our town is surrounded by forests, there
are also small rivers and lakes. Our people like to spend weekends in the
forests picking mush-rooms and berries in autumn, skiing in winter and in early
spring. Our men and boys are fond of fishing.
As for me, I like my town, it’s so lovely.
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