Ivolginsk

Village Ivolginsk Иволгинск ( Russian ) Эбилгэ ( Buryat ) Federal district far East republic Buryatia Rajon Ivolginsky Village since 1991 population 7382 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 550  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 30140 Post Code 671050 License Plate 03 OKATO 81 222 820 001 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 45 '  N , 107 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '45 "  N , 107 ° 17' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Buryatia

Ivolginsk ( Russian Иволги́нск ; Buryat Эбилгэ , Ebilge ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) with 7382 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Temples and chortens in Ivolginsky Dazan not far from Ivolginsk

The place is about 25 km as the crow flies southwest of the republic capital Ulan-Ude on a plain south of the Chamar-Daban Mountains, to the right of the Iwolga river, a left tributary of the Selenga , into which it flows 17 km to the east.

Iwolginsk is the administrative center of the Rajons Ivolginsky and seat of the rural community Iwolginskoje selskoje posselenije, which in addition to Iwolginsk nor the villages Kalenowo, Klyuchi, Kolobki, Krasnojarowo and Verkhnyaya Iwolga and settlements Schaluta and Tapchar belong. On the edge of the Verkhnyaya Iwolga ("Upper Iwolga") part of the community, 6 km west of Iwolginsk, is the Iwolginsky Dazan , center of Buddhism in Buryatia and one of the most important Buddhist monasteries in Russia.

history

The village was founded in the 18th century by Buryats who were resettled from the area west of Lake Baikal . In 1939 Ivolginsk became the center of an aimak (Rajons). In 1960 this was dissolved, but restored in 1985 from parts of the surrounding Rajons. From 1973 to 1991 the place had the status of an urban-type settlement .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	2207
1979	5296
1989	5980
2002	7241
2010	7382

Note: census data

traffic

Ivolginsk is on the A165 trunk road , which branches off the M55 Irkutsk  - Chita in Ulan-Ude and the Selenga leads upwards via Gussinoosjorsk to the Mongolian border at Kjachta .

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)