Bureja (place)

Urban-type settlement Bureja Бурея Federal district far East Oblast Amur Rajon Bureja Founded 1913 Urban-type settlement since 1929 population 4833 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41634 Post Code 676700-676701 License Plate 28 OKATO 10 215 557 Geographical location Coordinates 49 ° 48 '  N , 129 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '30 "  N , 129 ° 49' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Amur Oblast

Bureja ( Russian Бурея ) is an urban-type settlement in Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 4833 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the east of the Seja-Bureja plain , about 170 kilometers (as the crow flies) southeast of the Oblast capital Blagoveschensk . The Bureja of the same name flows five kilometers east of the village and flows into the Amur 50 kilometers southwest as one of its major tributaries .

Bureja belongs to the Bureja Rajon , whose administrative center Novobureiski is 7 kilometers east directly on the right bank of the Bureja.

history

The place arose in connection with the construction of the Amur railway from Kuenga not far from Sretensk in Transbaikalia to Khabarovsk , when a station named after the nearby river with an associated settlement was built here in 1913.

In 1929 urban-type settlement was granted.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	6131
1959	8312
1970	7702
1979	7263
1989	6736
2002	5598
2010	4833

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

There are railway companies in Bureja (locomotive depot, workshops for vehicle and route maintenance).

Bureja is the station of the Trans-Siberian Railway (line kilometer 8030 from Moscow ), which crosses the Bureja five kilometers east on two parallel, single-track bridges (length 581 km towards Vladivostok, 596 m towards Moscow). In Bureja, a branch line branches off to Raitschichinsk, which is almost 50 kilometers away, and the brown coal mining area surrounding the city .

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. ↑ ^{a b} Handbook of the Transbaikal Railway  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the railway administration (Russian)