Barguzin (place)

Village Barguzin Баргузин ( Russian ) Баргажан ( Buryat ) coat of arms Federal district far East republic Buryatia Rajon Bargusinsky Founded 1648 Earlier names Barguzinsk Village since 2004 population 5702 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 475  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 30131 Post Code 671610 License Plate 03 OKATO 81 203 820 001 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 37 '  N , 109 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '0 "  N , 109 ° 38' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Buryatia

Barguzin ( Russian Баргузи́н ; Buryat Баргажан , Bargashan ) is a village ( selo, formerly city) in the Republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) with 5,702 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

City arms of Barguzinsk (1790)

The place is about 250 km as the crow flies northeast of the republic capital Ulan-Ude and 30 km from the east bank of Lake Baikal . It is located on the right bank of 50 km southwest in Ust-Barguzin leading into the lake river Barguzin , to the northwest from the lake separated by the multiple, parallel and there until almost 2000  m high ridges of Bargusingebirges .

Barguzin is the administrative headquarters Rajons Bargusinski and seat of the rural community Bargusinskoje selskoje posselenije, belong to the next Bargusin nor the villages Nestericha and Schapenkowo.

history

In 1648 the Cossack ataman Iwan Galkin, also founder of Kansk and Ust-Kut , had the Bargusinski ostrog built on the site of the present-day location . In 1783 the place received city ​​rights as Bargusinsk as the administrative seat of a Ujesd . The city lost its administrative function in 1822, later also increasingly its economic importance, in particular due to the much more southern course of the Trans-Siberian Railway , which was led around Lake Baikal at the turn of the 20th century. In the course of the 19th century, the current form of the name became common.

Since 1923 the place has been the center of a Rajon, but in 1927 it lost its town charter and received the status of a village. Between 1973 and 2004, Barguzin was an urban-type settlement .

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1378
1926	2278
1939	2920
1959	3921
1970	4842
1979	5408
1989	6151
2002	6164
2010	5702

Note: census data

traffic

Barguzin is on the regional road R438, which comes from Ulan-Ude via Turuntajewo and reaches Lake Baikal near Gremjachinsk , the eastern bank of which follows the right bank of the Barguzin up from Ust-Barguzin. In a north-easterly direction, the road from Barguzin continues upstream to the neighboring district center of Kurumkan , about 90 km away . The place has a small airfield ( ICAO code UI08 ).

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)