Bai-chaak

Village Bai-Chaak Бай-Хаак Federal district Siberia republic Tuva Koschuun Tandinski head 1909 Earlier names Verkhne-Nikolskoye population 2981 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 900  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 39437 Post Code 668310 License Plate 17th OKATO 93 240 822 001 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 10 '  N , 94 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '45 "  N , 94 ° 27' 45"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Tuva

Bai-Chaak ( Russian and Tuvinian Бай-Хаак ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Tuva in Russia with 2981 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 60 km as the crow flies south of the republic capital Kyzyl on the southern edge of the Tuvinian Basin , at the foot of the Tannu-ola Mountains . It is located on the Durgen, a right tributary of the left Yenisei tributary Elegest .

Bai-Chaak is the administrative center of the Koschuun ( Rajons ) Tandinski and the seat and only locality of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Bai-Chaakski sumon .

history

The village was founded in 1909 by Russian resettlers and initially bore the Russian name Verkhne-Nikolskoje ("Upper Nikolskoje"; Uurgailyg , 5 km to the west and now defunct, was originally called Nizhne-Nikolskoje, "Lower Nikolskoje"). After the founding of the independent Tuvinian People's Republic , the place received its current Tuvinian name and in 1932 (according to other information already on June 16, 1924) the administrative seat of the newly created Tannu-Olski koschuun (Rajons), named after the mountains. Shortly after the annexation of the republic to the Soviet Union , the name of the Rajon was changed to Tandinski on October 13, 1944 , based on the Tuvinian form Tangdy from the Tuvinian name of the mountains Таңды-Уула , Tangdy-Uula.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	2283
1970	2357
1979	2704
1989	3077
2002	3084
2010	2981

Note: census data

traffic

The regional road 93N-31 leads to Bai-Chaak, which branches off 30 km northeast of the town and about 40 km southeast of Kyzyl from the federal trunk road R257 from Krasnoyarsk to the Mongolian border. The 93N-32 runs from Bai-Chaak to the northwest and after 40 km in Tschal-Keschig reaches the 93N-05 to the neighboring district center of Chowu-Aksy . To the southeast there is also a connection to the R257 via the 93N-33 to Balgasyn, 50 km away .

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. ↑ Bai-Chaak on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)