Birakan

Urban-type settlement Birakan Биракан Federal district far East region Jewish Autonomous Oblast Rajon Obluchye Founded 1905 Urban-type settlement since 1931 population 2151 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 220  m Time zone UTC + 10 Telephone code (+7) 42666 Post Code 679135 License Plate 79 OKATO 99 220 556 Geographical location Coordinates 49 ° 0 ′  N , 131 ° 43 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 131 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast

Birakan ( Russian Бирака́н ) is an urban-type settlement in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast ( Russia ) with 2151 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the Small Hinggan Mountains on the left bank of the Amur tributary Bira, a little below its origin from Sutara and Kuldur, and above the confluence of the small tributary Birakan. To the south of the settlement, the Sutara ridge of the low mountain range rises to a height of almost 800  m .

Birakan is about 90 km as the crow flies west-northwest of the republic capital Birobidzhan . It belongs to Rajon Obluchye and is the administrative center Obluchye about 50 km to the east. The two nearby villages of Novoje and Tjoplyje Klyuchi also belong to the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Birakan.

history

The place was founded in 1905 and named after the nearby river that flows into the Bira (the name stands in Evenk for ' little river' ). A little later, the Amur railway from Kuenga to Khabarovsk passed the site and started operating on this section in 1915. In 1931 Birakan received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	4360
1959	4288
1970	3023
1979	3081
1989	3089
2002	2543
2010	2151

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Not far from Birakan, a valley deposit was discovered that has not yet been mined. The Rajon Hospital is located in the village.

Birakan is a station of the Trans-Siberian Railway (route km 8248 from Moscow ). To the north, the M 58 Amur road from Chita to Khabarovsk bypasses the settlement , part of the transcontinental road connection. From this a local road branches off at Birakan to the settlement of Kuldur, 23 km to the north .

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. ↑ Information on Obbluchye Raion (Russian)