Cholbon

Urban-type settlement Cholbon Хolbon Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Schilkinsky Earlier names Cholbon-Baigul (until 1903) Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 2611 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 500  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30244 Post Code 673376 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 254 564 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 54 '  N , 116 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 54 '15 "  N , 116 ° 15' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

Cholbon ( Russian Холбо́н ) is an urban-type settlement in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 2611 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 190 km as the crow flies east of the regional capital Chita on the left bank of a left tributary of the Schilka , north of the Borschtschowotschnygebirge .

Cholbon belongs to the Shilkinsky Rajon and is located about 15 km east-northeast of its administrative center Shilka . The settlement is the seat of the municipality of Cholbonskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the urban-type Arbagar (5 km to the northeast).

history

The place was created in the 19th century as a post office called Cholbon-Baigul. After the Trans-Siberian Railway had passed by, the Cholbon station was opened there in 1903 and the mining of a coal deposit discovered in 1887 near Cholbon and the neighboring Arbagar began in 1905–1908. From 1931 a thermal power plant was built on this basis and built in 1933 with an initial output of 1  MW , later increased to 32 MW. Cholbon has had urban-type settlement status since 1938. The power plant was shut down in 1973 after larger power plants were commissioned in the region.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	7459
1959	3965
1970	3141
1979	2654
1989	2541
2002	2035
2010	2611

Note: census data

traffic

Cholbon is located on the Trans-Siberian Railway electrified on this section in 1988 (route kilometers 6459 from Moscow ). To the north, the settlement is bypassed by the regional road 76A-008 (previously on this section R426), which , coming from Mogoitui via Shilka, continues via Nerchinsk and Sretensk to Nerchinsky Zavod and Olotschi on the border with the People's Republic of China .

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. ↑ Cholbon in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)