Ekimchan

Urban-type settlement Ekimchan Экимчан Federal district far East Oblast Amur Rajon Selemjinsky First mention 1882 Urban-type settlement since 1961 population 1212 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 500  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41655 Post Code 676560 License Plate 28 OKATO 10 245 551 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 4 '  N , 132 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '15 "  N , 132 ° 56' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Amur Oblast

Ekimtschan ( Russian Экимча́н ) is an urban-type settlement in Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 1212 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 500 km as the crow flies northeast of the Blagoveshchensk Oblast Administrative Center on the southern edge of the Selemdasha Mountains . It lies on the right bank of the Selemdscha a little below the confluence of the left tributary Unerikan.

Ekimchan is the seat of the Rajons Selemdschinski and only location of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Ekimchan.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1882. It developed primarily as a logistic center for the many gold prospecting settlements in the area and as a location for forestry. Ekimchan has been the center of the Selemjinsky rajon since it was founded in 1926, and in 1961 it became an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1036
1959	1166
1970	1430
1979	1588
1989	1832
2002	1224
2010	1212

Note: census data

traffic

A road leads to Ekimchan from Swobodny, 400 km away, on the Trans-Siberian Railway , which first follows the Seja and then the Selemjah upwards and crosses the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) at Fevralsk . From Ekimtschan, first in a south-easterly direction, the road continues to the last villages, such as Zlatoustovsk , which are even further above in the catchment area of ​​the Selemsha .

From the 1940s until 1992, a small regional airport ( ICAO code UHBP ) was in operation in Ekimtschan . It was reopened in 2009; There is a connection several times a week via Fevralsk and Svobodny to the Blagoveshchensk Oblast Center.

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)