INTA

Inta was founded in 1940 on the place of the coal bed, which was discovered by geologists as early as the beginning of 19 century. Therefore the first settlers of the future town were exploration geologists. 

After Donets Basin was occupied by German-fascist conquerors, our country was needed badly in discovery and development of new sources of energy. So, the commercial production of coal in Inta was organized in the period of the Great Patriotic war – in 1943 the first train with power-generating coal that was mined in Inta was sent to Leningrad. 

At 4 of October in 1954, the Inta settlement was reorganized into the town by the decree of the praesidium of Supreme Soviet of RSFSR. 

According to Federal Agency of the state statistics for January, 1st, 2010 in the urban district of Inta lives 36 436 persons, from which 2575 persons live in the countryside that makes about 4 % of the population of Komi Republic.

Inta is the town of miners, among minerals in the territory of Inta, are coal, gold, manganese, cobalt, quartz, crystal, quartzitic sandstone, pigmentary dyes of a mineral origin. 

In the territory of Inta area northern part of the state natural national park of Republic Komi "Jugyd Va" (light water), which was entered into the register of UNESCO, is located.

How to get to there?

You can get to Inta only by train from the train station of Syktyvkar. After arrival at the train station, get bus number 101 to the downtown. 

Sights

The Water Tower

In 1953-1954 one of the few of architectural monuments in a small town was built — a water tower. The building doesn't correspond to shape habitual for similar constructions — it is surprising to see in a small town so grand monument of the architecture executed out of a traditional red brick. The tower is the favourite building of townspeople — it is definitely a city symbol (not surprisingly that this building is embodied on the coat of arms of the town), and inhabitants of Inta are obliged by its occurrence to the political prisoner — to Swede Arthur Tamvelius.

Address: Polyarnaya street (You can see it from any place in the town)

The Local History Museum

The local history museum is the centre of study, collection and propagation of monuments of the social and natural history of the region. Priority themes in scientific research are: "Industrial development of the Coal basin of Inta", "Inta in GULAG system", etc. The museum conducts educational, informative, leisure excursions on stationary expositions. The exhibition hall shows private collections of townspeople, fund collections of other cities. There are programs "Museum and family", school research laboratory for the study of local history.

The main excursions are Fauna and flora of tundra and forest-tundra; Occupation of the river basin of Usa; Nature management and economic activity of northern Komi people; Features of culture and life of people of Upper Usinsk; Birth of Inta; Inta in Gulag system.

www.museum.ru/M1250 

Tel.: +7 (82145) 6-5004

Address: 169830, Komi Republic, Inta, Kuratova street, 28

Take a bus number 101 or 5 to the station "The local history museum", "Kuratova street".

Open daily from 10 am till 5 pm, except Monday and last Friday of the month.

The Glory Monument of soldiers of the Great Patriotic War

The Komsomol'skaya square is a city square since 1963 almost 20 years bore Lenin's name and became a watershed between the township and the town of Inta. Really, everything that was built behind this area was built in a new way, differently. Builders were already not prisoners, and civilians, they were not digging foundations any more here and were not ramming in the foundations, and the number of storeys of buildings has increased from two-three to five-nine floors. On this area, since 60th years, the snow small towns with many art figures and an original slide were being constructed for New Year's holidays. In the autumn of 1977 on the area, a construction of the Glory Monument in memory to the soldiers who have not come back from fronts of the Great Patriotic War had been finished. In 1985 on commemorative plates names of 162 citizens of Inta and a four more – from Afghan war have been carved.

Address: Komsomol'skaya square

The architectural complex of wooden architecture "Teremki"

The main street of the settlement has been conceived by its founders - architects of design department "Intastroy" - as a united ensemble in the style of Russian wooden architecture. Meanwhile not an easy task was assigned: - to avoid uniformity of these constructions with the unity of building material and the number of storeys. It is necessary to recognize that the enthusiasts who had given to the work all their soul have perfectly coped with this problem by the architectural ornaments designed for each building and inherent only in them - an original balcony, a loggia, carved frames of windows... And among them, first of all, there was Ivan Andreevich Homenko, chief of the department and the main architect and Sergey Vasiljevich Durakov - the head of the project "Inta". Builders have waited for the arrival by train of the building timber of good quality from the South of the Republic and have started the realization of the project. First, four two-storeyed houses have been handed over in 1944 as many in the next year, eight houses - in 1946 and eight more - in 1948.

The address: Kirov Street (Go on foot from the Komsomol'skaya square)