Balakhta

Federal district	Siberia
region	Krasnoyarsk
Rajon	Balakhtinsky
head	Sergei Antonov
Founded	1740
Earlier names	Balakhtinskoye
Urban-type settlement since	1961
population	7410 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center	320 m
Time zone	UTC + 7
Telephone code	(+7) 39148
Post Code	662340
License Plate	24, 84, 88, 124
OKATO	04 204 551
Website	balahta.bdu.su
Geographical location
Coordinates	55 ° 23 ' N , 91 ° 38' E Coordinates: 55 ° 23 '0 " N , 91 ° 37' 45" E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in the Krasnoyarsk Territory

Balachta ( Russian Балахта́ ) is an urban-type settlement in the Krasnoyarsk region in Russia with 7,410 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 100 km as the crow flies southwest of the regional administrative center Krasnoyarsk on the right bank of the Ob tributary Chulym .

Balachta is the administrative center of the Rajons Balachtinski and seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Balachta, (17 km northeast) (8 km south-west) are among the also the villages Marjassowo (13 km southwest), Ogonki and Talowaja.

history

The place was founded by Cossacks in 1740 and was initially called Balakhtinskoe. In 1783 it was the seat of a Volost in Ujesd Krasnoyarsk (from 1822 Okrug of the Yeniseisk governorate ). On April 4, 1924, Balachta became the administrative seat of a Rajons named after him. It has had urban-type settlement status since 1961.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	4364
1959	4248
1970	7151
1979	7427
1989	7793
2002	7843
2010	7410

Note: census data

traffic

About 6 km east of Balachta the federal highway leads R257 (formerly M54) over, the Krasnoyarsk through Abakan and Kyzyl with the border with Mongolia connects. There the regional road 04K-042 (formerly R412) branches off, crosses Balakhta and leads via Ushur (120 km away, on the Achinsk - Abakan railway line ) to Sharypovo .

A small airport southwest of the settlement has been out of service since the early 1990s.

Web links

Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)

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 for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

[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 for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)


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