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Inta (Russian: Инта́, Komi: Инта) is a town in the Komi Republic, Russia. Population: 32,080 (2010 census);[2] 41,217 (2002 census);[6] 60,220 (1989 Soviet census).[7]

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History

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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) was built by deportees and political prisoners working in the coal mines of the Pechora coal basin.[8]

The city's name is in the Nenets language and means 'well-watered place.'

During the Soviet era, a "corrective labor camp", Intalag, was located here.[9]

Administrative and municipal status

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Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with two urban-type settlements (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.[1] As a municipal division, the town of republic significance of Inta is incorporated as Inta Urban Okrug.[3]

Transportation

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It is served by the Inta Airport and the KotlasVorkuta railway line. Inta is situated on the banks of the river Bolshoya Inta.

Transmitter

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

Notable people

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References

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