Archara

Urban-type settlement Archara Архара Federal district far East Oblast Amur Rajon Archara Founded 1911 Urban-type settlement since 1950 population 9585 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41648 Post Code 676740-676742 License Plate 28 OKATO 10 205 551 Geographical location Coordinates 49 ° 25 '  N , 130 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '0 "  N , 130 ° 5' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Amur Oblast

Archara ( Russian Архара ) is an urban-type settlement in Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 9585 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the far east of the Seja-Bureja plain , at the foot of the foothills of the Little Hinggan Mountains in the Far East of Russia , about 210 kilometers (as the crow flies) southeast of the Oblast capital Blagoveshchensk . Not far to the east of the village flows the Amur tributary of the same name, Archara .

Archara is the administrative center of the Archara Rajon of the same name .

history

Archara train station

The place arose in connection with the construction of the Amur railway from Kuenga not far from Sretensk in Transbaikalia to Khabarovsk , when a station named after the nearby river with an associated settlement was built here in 1911.

In 1950 urban-type settlement status was given.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	5,873
1959	8,738
1970	9,627
1979	10,850
1989	13,192
2002	10,847
2010	9,585

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The Archara station of the Trans-Siberian Railway (route kilometer 8080 from Moscow ) has been the border station between the regional railway administrations Transbaikal Railway and Far East Railway since 1959 - the station itself belongs to the latter. In addition to the rail transport companies (locomotive depot) that have arisen in this context, there are food industry companies in Archara that process produce from the surrounding agricultural area.

The newly traced M58 “Amur” trunk road , part of the trans-Siberian road connection, runs a few kilometers northeast of the town.

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. ↑ ^{a b} Handbook of the Transbaikal Railway  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the railway administration (Russian)