Alsamai

Federal district	Siberia
Oblast	Irkutsk
Rajon	Nizhneudinsk
Founded	1899
City since	1955
surface	45 km²
population	6730 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	150 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	300 m
Time zone	UTC + 8
Telephone code	(+7) 39517
Post Code	665160, 665161
License Plate	38, 85, 138
OKATO	25 424 505
Geographical location
Coordinates	55 ° 33 ′ N , 98 ° 40 ′ E Coordinates: 55 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ N , 98 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in Irkutsk Oblast
	List of cities in Russia

Alsamai ( Russian Алзама́й ) is a small town in the Irkutsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 6,730 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the northern foreland of the Eastern Sayan , about 600 km northwest of the Oblast capital Irkutsk on the Toporok River , a right tributary of the Birjussa in the Angara basin .

The city belongs to the Nizhneudinsk district , whose administrative center Nizhneudinsk is located 75 km south-southeast.

Alsamai is on the Trans-Siberian Railway (km 4586 from Moscow ) and on the M53 Novosibirsk - Irkutsk - Listvyanka highway .

history

Alsamai was founded in 1899 with the opening of the station of the same name on the East Siberian section of the Trans-Siberian Railway near an older village of the same name (today Stary Alsamai , Alt-Alsamai). The names of the place and the Alsamaitschik river are possibly derived from the name of the legendary Buryat hero of the 16th century, Olsobe or Olsoma , under whom the Buryats settled in the Baikal area from what is now Mongolia .

In 1955 the place received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	13,060
1970	10,630
1979	9,270
1989	9,029
2002	7,383
2010	6,730

Note: census data

economy

The most important industry in Alsamai is the wood industry.

Individual evidence

↑ ^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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line

Web links

Alsamai on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line


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