Townlet: Encyclopedia II - Townlet - Soviet Union

Townlet - Soviet Union

According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, three main types of localites were included under the description P.G.T.:

• Workers' settlement: a locality with factories, mining industry, power stations, construction industry, with a maximum of 3,000 inhabitants.
• Health resort: a locality with a focus on sanatarium and health facilities.
• Dacha locality: settlement with a focus on private recreation at summer and on weekends with agricultural activities not more than 25%.

Townlet - Ukrainian SSR

The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic defined a townlet in 1981 as follows:

• a locality of under 2,000 inhabitants, consisting of at least ⅔ workers or employees or their families;
• with industrial enterprises, buildings, and a railroad connection

or

• localities with educational or research institutions;
• with sanatoriums or recreational institutions.

In exceptional cases, even localities of 500 to 2,000 inhabitants could attain townlet status, if they had economic development potential.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Soviet Union", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki