Chorinsk

Village Chorinsk Хоринск ( Russian ) Хори ( Buryat ) coat of arms Federal district far East republic Buryatia Rajon Chorinski Earlier names Duma, Nikolskoye bazaar (until 1917) Dodo-Aninskoje (1917–1923) Village since 1990 population 8138 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 660  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 30148 Post Code 671410 License Plate 03 OKATO 81 257 835 001 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 10 '  N , 109 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 9 '45 "  N , 109 ° 46' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Buryatia

Chorinsk ( Russian Хоринск ; Buryat Хори ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) with 8138 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 150 km as the crow flies east-northeast of the republic capital Ulan-Ude on the right bank of the Selenga tributary river Uda above the confluence of its tributary Ona . To the south extends in a west-east direction the 1200  m high Chudan ridge (Chudanski chrebet), to the north the almost 1800  m high Kurba ridge (Kurbinski chrebet).

Chorinsk is the administrative center of the Rajons Chorinski and seat of the rural community Chorinskoje selskoje posselenije, which in addition to Chorinsk still the village Aninsk and the settlement Maila belong.

history

The place emerged from the small settlements Duma and Bazaar and was called Nikolskoye in the 19th century . In 1917 the name was changed to Dodo-Aninskoje , with the establishment of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR in 1923 finally in Chorinsk. In the same year the place became the center of a Rajon.

From 1973 to 1990 Chorinsk had urban-type settlement status .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3301
1959	3450
1970	6510
1979	7255
1989	8661
2002	8134
2010	8138

Note: census data

traffic

Chorinsk is on the regional road R436, which follows the right bank of the Uda from Ulan-Ude upwards. From Chorinsk it continues in a north-easterly direction to the neighboring district center Sosnowo-Oserskoye and then in a wide arc over Romanowka to the center of the Transbaikalia Chita region , and from Romanowka as R437 to Bagdarin .

A few kilometers south of Chorinsk, on the left Uder of the Uda, the main line of the Chandagatai narrow-gauge railway , which was built from 1934 onwards, passed mainly for forestry purposes . This section of the approximately 230 km long line from Novoiljinsk on the Trans-Siberian Railway to Egita and the forest areas further northeast was shut down at the end of the 1990s, the entire 300 km long network by 2004.

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)