Itaka (Russia)

Urban-type settlement Itaka Итака Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Mogochinsky Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 356 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 700  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30241 Post Code 673754 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 226 558 Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 54 '  N , 118 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '30 "  N , 118 ° 42' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

Itaka ( Russian Итака́ ) is an urban-type settlement in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 356 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 400 km as the crow flies northeast of the regional capital Chita in the Itaka Depression (Itakinskaja wpadina) between the Tungir ridge (Tungirski chrebet) in the northwest, the Chorkowykamm (Chorkowy chrebet) in the south and the foothills of the Cheromnykamm (Tscheromny chrebet) in the east, the Parts of the low mountain range Oljokminski Stanowik are. The upper course of the eponymous Itaka , a right tributary of the Tschorny Urjum in the Amur river system, runs through the depression . The two districts Glawny Stan and Sredni Stan are accordingly on the left and right banks of the Itaka River.

Itaka belongs to the Mogotschinsky Rajon and is located about 70 km west-northwest of its administrative center Mogotscha . The settlement is part of the municipality Ksenjewskoje gorodskoje posselenije, whose administrative seat Ksenjewka is about 35 km south.

history

The settlement emerged towards the end of the 19th century after a gold soap deposit was discovered in the Itaka Valley in 1871 . Mining of a gold and antimony ore was also started later . Itaka has had urban-type settlement status since 1938. Mining ceased in the 1990s; since then only a small amount of gold has been washed.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	772
1959	447
1970	1283
1979	479
1989	655
2002	451
2010	356

Note: census data

traffic

Itaka can be reached via an unpaved local road from Ksenjewka, where there is a station of the Trans-Siberian Railway , and from where a road leads to the R297 Amur trunk road (until 2017 also M58) Chita - Khabarovsk , which passes about 30 km south of there .

At Itaka past of the 1990s went to early an above ground, of Aksjonowo-Silowskoje coming telephone line , on the river Itaka up and Tungir down to the about 120 km away Tupik . The telephone route was followed by a dirt road.

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. ↑ Itaka in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)