Yanchukan

Urban-type settlement Yanchukan Янчукан Federal district far East republic Buryatia Rajon Severo-Baikalsky Urban-type settlement since 1982 population 392 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 600  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 30130 Post Code 671735 License Plate 03 OKATO 81 245 575 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 15 ′  N , 112 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 56 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 112 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Buryatia

Yanchukan ( Russian Янчукан ) is an urban-type settlement in the autonomous republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) with 392 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement lies at the eastern end of Upper Angarasenke , a few kilometers above the point at which the Upper Angara River from its narrow valley between Deljun Uranium Mountains in the north and Northern Mujagebirge (Seweromuisker Mountains) emerges in the south to the relatively flat valley. The two mountain ranges in this area about 2000 meters high belong to the system of the Stanowoi Highlands . Jantschukan is about 600 kilometers (as the crow flies) northeast of the republic capital Ulan-Ude .

The settlement belongs to Severo-Baikalski Raion , whose administrative center Nizhneangarsk is a good 200 kilometers away in a south-westerly direction.

history

The place was created in the late 1970s on the left bank of the Upper Angara in connection with the construction of the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM), west of their crossing of the Northern Muja Mountains with the Severomuisk tunnel .

In 1982 urban-type settlement status was given. Regular rail traffic on the entire section between Lake Baikal (Severobaikalsk) and Novaya Tschara in northern Transbaikalia began in 1989. After the completion of the railway line and as a result of the economic crisis from the end of the 1980s, almost two thirds of the residents left the remote town.

Population development

year	Residents
1989	1462
2002	539
2010	392

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

In Jantschukan there is a station on the Baikal-Amur main line (line kilometer 1315 from Taischet ), which is the only economic factor. The station is called Kjuchelbekerskaja , after the Russian -Baltic German poet and Decembrist Wilhelm Küchelbecker (Russian Kjuchelbeker ), who died in Siberian exile in 1846 .

The road following the railway line also leads through the settlement.

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)