Chani (place)
Urban-type settlement
Chani
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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 |
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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
- ↑ 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)