Soligalich

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Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Soligalich
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Солигалич
Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline: 300px|
Russian inhabited locality.image_caption: View of Soligalich
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position: right
Russian inhabited locality.image_coa: Coat of Arms of Soligalich (Kostroma oblast) (1779).png
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Kostroma Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur: Soligalichsky District
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur: Soligalich
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type: Town of district significance
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1: Soligalichsky District
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of2: town of district significance of Soligalich
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat: Town
Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur: Soligalichsky Municipal District
Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur: Soligalich Urban Settlement
Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of1: Soligalichsky Municipal District
Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of2: Soligalich Urban Settlement
Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census: 6438

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Population: 5534
Area: 8
Elevation: 130
Image: Soligalich ResurrectionMon 0765.jpg
Dialing code: 49436

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Commons category: Soligalich
inception: 1335-00-00
postal code: 157170
native label: Солигалич

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Soligalich () is a town and the administrative center of Soligalichsky District in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Kostroma River. Population:

==History== It originated as an important center of saltworks, which supplied with salt not only Russia but also much of Scandinavia. These saltworks were first mentioned in the testament of Ivan Kalita as Sol-Galitskaya (, lit. salt of Galich).