Burchala

Urban-type settlement Burchala Бурхала Federal district far East Oblast Magadan Rajon Jagodninsky Urban-type settlement since 1956 population 272 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 600  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 41343 Post Code 686242 License Plate 49 OKATO 44 222 554 Geographical location Coordinates 62 ° 39 '  N , 149 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 62 ° 39 '0 "  N , 149 ° 7' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Magadan Oblast

Burchala ( Russian Бурхала́ ) is an urban-type settlement in the Magadan Oblast ( Russia ) with 272 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located about 350 km as the crow flies north of the Magadan Oblast Administrative Center on the left bank of the eponymous river Burchala, which flows into the left Kolyma tributary Debin about 3 km northeast .

Burchala belongs to Jagodninsky Rajon and is located about 30 km northwest of its administrative center Jagodnoye . The settlement is the seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Burchala, among which also the small, 23 km north-westernmost settlement Polevoi.

history

The settlement was founded around 1940 after gold was found in the area. Burchala has had urban-type settlement status since 1956. After mining ceased in the 1990s, most of the residents left the place.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	2793
1970	1122
1979	1437
1989	1827
2002	571
2010	272

Note: census data

traffic

Burchala is on the R504 Kolyma highway , which connects Magadan with Nizhny Bestjach near Yakutsk (previously M56 , number still in use until 2017). A few kilometers north-west of the settlement, the road in the direction of Sussuman crosses the 1009  m high Burchala pass (Burchalinski perewal).

Web links

• Private website about Burchala (Russian)

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)