Dawenda

Urban-type settlement Dawenda Давенда coat of arms Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Mogochinsky Founded 1939 Earlier names Ivachikha (until 1951) Urban-type settlement since 1951 population 812 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 640  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30241 Post Code 673742 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 226 556 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 33 '  N , 119 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '15 "  N , 119 ° 19' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

Dawenda ( Russian Даве́нда ) is an urban-type settlement in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 812 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 420 km as the crow flies east-northeast of the regional capital Chita at the western end of the Amasar Mountains , southwest of the 1300  m high Sobatschkin ridge (Sobatschkin chrebet). It is located on the Dawenda river, which gives it its name, which flows over the Scheltuga to the Schilka, which runs a good 30 km southeast .

Dawenda belongs to the Mogotschinsky Rajon and is located about 35 km southwest of its administrative center Mogotscha . It is the seat and only locality of the Dawendinskoje gorodskoje posselenije municipality .

history

The settlement was established in 1939 in connection with the development of a molybdenum deposit under the name Ivachicha. In 1941 ore mining began. Since 1951 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement under its current name.

In 1992 the molybdenum mine was closed due to the extensive depletion of supplies. Since then, gold has been panned to a small extent on the Dawenda and its tributary Pokoinaja.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	5158
1970	3421
1979	2765
1989	2020
2002	1022
2010	812

Note: census data

traffic

Dawenda owns east over 9 km away neighboring settlement Kljutschewski and south following the highway R297 Amur (until 2017 also M58), connects the Chita to Khabarovsk and is part of the transcontinental road link. A local road runs to the northwest over the Sobatschkinkamm to the Kisly Klyuch station on the Trans-Siberian Railway, about 20 km away .

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. ↑ Dawenda in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)