Chani (place)

Urban-type settlement Chani Hani Federal district far East republic Sakha (Yakutia) Ulus Nerjungri Urban-type settlement since 1981 population 764 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 700  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41147 Post Code 678976 License Plate 14th OKATO 98 406 564 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 55 '  N , 119 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 54 '45 "  N , 119 ° 57' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Sakha Republic

Chani ( Yakut and Russian Хани ) is an urban-type settlement in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Russia with 764 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 800 km as the crow flies southwest of the republic capital Yakutsk on the south-eastern flank of the Udokan Mountains , part of the Stanovoi highlands . It is located on the left bank of the Oljokma tributary of the same name , the Chani , which marks the border with Amur Oblast . The border with the Transbaikalia region runs about 5 km to the west .

Chani belongs to the Neryungrinsky Rajon and is located about 300 km west of its administrative center Neryungri . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Chani.

history

The settlement was established during the construction of the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM) in the second half of the 1970s. Chani has had urban-type settlement status since 1981. After the railway line was largely completed at the end of the 1980s and due to a lack of further development, over two thirds of the residents have since left the town.

Population development

year	Residents
1989	2362
2002	933
2010	764

Note: census data

traffic

Chani is on the Baikal-Amur-Magistrale (BAM) at route kilometers 1864 from Taischet and on the mostly unpaved road that follows the railway line. Chani is the only major station on the BAM main line on the territory of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and the last station on the section operated by the Dalnewostochnaja schelesnaja doroga (Far East Railway); to the west begins the section of the Vostochno-Sibirskaya schelesnaja doroga (East Siberian Railway).

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)