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Boguchany ( Russian Богуча́ны ) is a village in the Krasnoyarsk region ( Russia ) with 11,232 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The settlement is about 400 kilometers (as the crow flies) northeast of the regional capital Krasnoyarsk on the left bank of the largest, here about 1.5 kilometers wide Yenisei tributary Angara . The Angara represents the north-western boundary of the Angarapateau to the Central Siberian mountainous region. In the vicinity of the place it rises to almost 500 m.
Boguchany is the administrative center of the Boguchany Rajon of the same name .
history
The village was founded in 1642 by Cossacks on an area sparsely populated by the indigenous Evenk population.
Boguchany served as a place of political exile in both tsarist Russia and Soviet times .
With the establishment of a Rajon in 1924 Boguchany became its administrative center.
There was an upswing with rapid population growth from the mid-1970s, when the construction of the Boguchany reservoir named after the place began. Its dam is not close to the village, but about 120 kilometers up the river. The dam wall and the hydroelectric power station are still not completed; Part of the logistical functions for the building was subsequently taken over by the newly founded city of Kodinsk , located near the building .
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1939 | 2,333 |
| 1959 | 3,843 |
| 1970 | 5,700 |
| 1979 | 9,906 |
| 1989 | 14,433 |
| 2002 | 11,386 |
| 2010 | 11,232 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
Several wooden buildings from the 18th century have been preserved in Boguchany, including that of the former village community ( Volost ) administration and several residential buildings. In the village of Galtjawino des Rajons there is a log house from the 17th century.
The village has a local museum.
Economy and Infrastructure
In Boguchany there are mainly forestry and agricultural companies. The place is a base for exploration and development of the raw material deposits of the Angara area in the eastern part of the Krasnoyarsk region (natural gas, iron ore, coal, non-ferrous metals).
The closest train station is Karabula at the settlement of Tajozhny about 50 kilometers south of Boguchany, which was reached in 1977 from Resoty station in the settlement of Nizhnyaya Poima of the Trans-Siberian Railway, 259 kilometers away . The originally planned extension to the Angara or Bogutschany has not yet been implemented. Construction of the route to the village of Jarki, 25 kilometers west of Boguchany on the Angara, which was scheduled for 2009, was started, but stopped after the main contractor went bankrupt in 2014; Among other things, the entire route without the superstructure and 27 bridges had been completed by this time . The work has not yet been resumed (as of August 2018).
Since 2001 there has been a year-round connection to the all-Russian road network via Aban to Kansk on the R258 Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk - Irkutsk road .
In the immediate vicinity of the town there is a small airport ( ICAO code UNKB ), from which there is a connection to the regional capital; There is a shipping pier at the Angara.
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)
- ↑ a b c Boguchany on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
- ↑ Local history museum at museum.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Article in Gudok , daily newspaper of the Russian Railways, February 9, 2009 (Russian)
- ↑ Article at NizhnejePriangarje.ru from November 24, 2017 (Russian)
- ^ Report in the newspaper Krasnoyarsky Rabotschi from April 18, 2002 (Russian)
