Jasnogorsk (Transbaikalia)

Urban-type settlement yasnogorsk Ясногорск Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Olowjannaja Founded 1978 Urban-type settlement since 1981 population 8,873 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 620  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30253 Post Code 674520 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 232 570 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 53 '  N , 115 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '30 "  N , 115 ° 41' 45"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

Jasnogorsk ( Russian Ясного́рск ) is an urban-type settlement in the Transbaikalia region ( Russia ) with 8,873 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the middle of the mountainous steppes of southern Dauria , a good two kilometers from the right bank of the Onon , one of the headwaters of the Schilka and Amur , not far from the confluence of the smaller right tributary Turga, and about 200 kilometers as the crow flies southeast of the regional capital Chita .

The settlement Yasnogorsk belongs to the Olowjannaja Rajon , whose administrative center Olowjannaja is a good 10 kilometers to the north-east.

history

The place was created in the second half of the 1970s in connection with the start of construction of the Charanor thermal power station (Charanorskaya GRES) and an associated reservoir on the Turga for cooling water supply near the Razjesd No. 73 train station , the Karymskaya railway line that opened there in 1901  - Sabaikalsk (further as the Chinese Eastern Railway ) existed. In 1978 the place was officially founded, and in 1981 it was granted urban-type settlement status. After a long delay in construction, the first power plant unit was not connected to the grid until 1995, the second in 2001.

Population development

year	Residents
1989	7546
2002	9747
2010	8873

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The building company is the Charanor thermal power plant to the south of the settlement with an output of 430  MW , which is operated by the energy company OGK-3 . A third power station is under construction.

Jasnogorsk is located on the Karymskaja - Sabaikalsk railway, which connects the main line of the Trans-Siberian Railway with the People's Republic of China (station name Jasnogorsk-Sabaikalski ; route kilometers 6454 from Moscow ). Ten kilometers south-east of the settlement there is a connection to the A166 trunk road following the railway line , which bypasses Jasnogorsk widely.

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. ↑ Jasnogorsk in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)