Alexandrovsky Zavod

Village Alexandrovsky Zavod Александровский Завод Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Alexandrovo-Zavodsky Founded 1792 Earlier names Talmanski sawod (until 1825) population 2482 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 790  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30240 Post Code 674640 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 204 000 001 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 56 '  N , 117 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '30 "  N , 117 ° 56' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

Alexandrowski Sawod ( Russian Алекса́ндровский Заво́д ) is a village (selo) in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 2,482 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 330 km as the crow flies east-southeast of the regional capital Chita on the right bank of the Argun tributary Gasimur . The Gasimur flows through a wide valley between a southern foothill of the Borschtschowotschnygebirge north of the place and the southern running Nertschinsker Mountains (Nertschinski chrebet), both of which are almost 1500  m high.

Alexandrowski Sawod is the administrative center of the Alexandrovo-Sawodski Rajons and the seat of the rural community Alexandrovo-Sawodskoje selskoje posselenije, which also includes the village of Schuravljowo (8 km west).

history

The village was founded in 1792 in connection with the establishment of a silver mining and - metallurgical plant on the river Talman, which opens there in the Gazimur River, and therefore initially carried the name Talmanski zavod ( "Talman-work"). In 1825 he received its present name ( "Alexander-work") after the late the same year the Russian Emperor Alexander I. In the 19th century was Alexandrovsky Zavod and political exile , so for participants of the Polish November Uprising of 1830/1831, the Petrashevsky Circle or Revolutionary Andrei Krassowski and the writer and publicist Nikolai Tschernyshevsky .

1926 Alexandrowski Zavod became the administrative seat of a Rajon.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3014
1959	3115
1979	2771
1989	2924
2002	2630
2010	2482

Note: census data

traffic

Alexandrowski Sawod is on the regional road 76A-011 (formerly R430), which connects Borsja on the A350 with Ivanovka near Nerchinsky Sawod .

In 2012, provisional operations began on the railway line that ran past Alexandrowski Sawod and was built in 2007 from the Naryn I station (near Borsja) to Gasimurski Sawod . Parallel to the construction of the railway, the 80 km down the Gasimur, previously partly unpaved regional road 76K-003 to Trubachovo was expanded, where there is a connection to the 76A-008 (formerly R429) about 20 km above Gasimurski Sawod.

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. ↑ Alexandrowski Sawod in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)