Ajan

This article deals with the locality. For the river see Ajan (Cheta) ; on the Hungarian sports functionary see Tamás Aján .

Village Ajan Аян Federal district far East region Khabarovsk Rajon Ajano corn kebab head Alexei Andreevich Dubrovin Founded 1843 population 967 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 42147 Post Code 682571 License Plate 27 OKATO 08 206 000 001 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 28 '  N , 138 ° 11'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 28 '0 "  N , 138 ° 11' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Khabarovsk region

Ajan ( Russian Ая́н ) is a village (selo) in the Russian region of Khabarovsk on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk with 967 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

The port of Ajan around 1870 from the south-east

history

The settlement of Ajan was founded in 1843 by the Russian-American Company . From here, from 1844 to 1845, a road was built through the Jugdschur Mountains to Yakutsk ( Amgino-Ajanski trakt ), which was supposed to transport freight from Yakutsk to the Sea of ​​Okhotsk using reindeer sleighs. In 1846 the place received the status of a port. With the opening of the trade route, the local economy flourished.

During the Crimean War, which extended through the combatants Russia on the one hand and England and the Allies on the other, also to the Pacific, the port of Ajan, which was important at the time, was occupied by the English fleet on July 9, 1855. However, the port and place had been abandoned by the population shortly before. The coastal battery was razed, the cannons buried. The place was not destroyed. The order of the English fleet was to destroy any existing Russian ships. Apart from a small steam tug, however, no Russian vehicle was found. The tug had previously been pulled ashore and should be buried. It was destroyed by an explosion by the English troops. At that time, the port was also used by the US whaling fleet.

As early as 1867, however, the Amgino-Ajanski tract was no longer used because there were other routes to Yakutsk. After a ship connection to Vladivostok was established in the early 1880s , the route to Yakutsk was revived.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1920
1959	1721
1970	1360
1979	1407
1989	2039
2002	1325
2010	967

Note: census data

literature

• Aleksandr Judin (ed.): Chabarovskij kraj (Putevoditel '"Pti fjute"). Moskva: Avangard, 2007. ISBN 978-5-86394-281-0 .
• Rule, Dr. E and Tiling, Dr. H. 1858. Florula Ajanensis, listing of the phanerogams and higher cryptogams growing in the vicinity of Ajan together with a description of some new species and illumination of related plants. University printing house. (Moscow)
• Without a statement of the author (di: Heinrich Sylvester Theodor Tiling) 1854: A journey around the world from west to east through the calm and Atlantic sea. Publishing house by C. Krebs, Aschaffenburg

Web links

Commons : Ajan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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)
2. ↑ Important from the Russian Possessions. Operations of the Allied Fleet in the North Pacific, in: The New York Times, November 12, 1855
3. ↑ Late News from Siberia and Kamchatka, in: The New York Times of October 28, 1854.