Inta
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Inta
a city in the Komi ASSR. Situated on the left bank of the Bol’shaia Inta River (Pechora basin), 12 km from the Inta railroad station and 50 km south of the arctic circle. Population, 51,000 (1972). Inta is the site of coal extraction (Pechora basin), a machine-repair plant, a woodworking combine, building-materials enterprises, a heat and electric power plant, and a poultry farm. It has an industrial technicum and a people’s theater. There are local subsidiary enterprises (dairy, meat) on the right bank of the river. The settlement of Inta was formed in 1940 and became a city in 1954.
REFERENCE
Guletskii, G. P. Inta. Syktyvkar, 1968.The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.