Churaptscha

Village Tschuraptscha Чурапча ( Russian ) Чурапчы ( Yakut ) Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Churaptscha Founded 1725 population 8769 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 180  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41151 Post Code 678670 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 258 870 001 Geographical location Coordinates 62 ° 0 ′  N , 132 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 61 ° 59 ′ 45 "  N , 132 ° 26 ′ 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Tschuraptscha ( Russian Чурапча́ ; Yakut Чурапчы ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia with 8,769 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 140 km as the crow flies east of the republic capital Yakutsk in the southeastern part of the Central Yakut lowlands . It is located on the lake of the same name, which drains to the left Aldan tributary Tatta , which runs a few kilometers to the southeast .

Tschuraptscha is the administrative center of Ulus Tschuraptschinski . The village is the seat and only locality of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Tschuraptschinski nasleg.

history

The village was founded in 1725 in connection with the establishment of the Yakutsk-Okhotsk tract , a postal and trade route that was supposed to connect Yakutsk with the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk near Okhotsk (but never for a long time and regularly along its entire length until its official closure in 1852 worked). Since 1930, Tschuraptscha has been the administrative seat of the Ulus ( Rajons ) named after him in its current form.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1657
1959	2826
1970	4557
1979	5210
1989	6232
2002	7526
2002	8769

Note: census data

traffic

Churaptscha is on the R504 Kolyma trunk road , which connects Nizhny Bestjach near Yakutsk with Magadan (previously M56 , number still in use until 2017), on its westernmost section to Chandyga am Aldan.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)