Kalangui

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Urban-type settlement
Kalangui
Калангуй
Federal district far East
region Transbaikalia
Rajon Olowjanninsky
Founded 1919
Urban-type settlement since 1939
population 2112 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center 760  m
Time zone UTC + 9
Telephone code (+7) 30253
Post Code 674553
License Plate 75, 80
OKATO 76 232 553
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 1 '  N , 116 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '45 "  N , 116 ° 31' 15"  E
Kalangui (Russia)
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Situation in Russia
Kalangui (Transbaikalia Region)
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Location in the Transbaikalia region

Kalangui ( Russian Калангу́й ) is an urban-type settlement in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 2112 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 240 km as the crow flies southeast of the regional capital Tschita at the southern foot of the almost 1200  m Zugolkamm (Zugolski chrebet). It is located on a small right tributary of the right Onon tributary Turga .

Kalangui belongs to the Olowjanninski Rajon and is located almost 70 km east of its administrative center Olowjannaja . It is the seat and only locality of the municipality of Kalanguiskoje gorodskoje posselenije.

history

The place was created in 1919 in connection with the discovery of a fluorspar deposit . Its dismantling began in 1925. Kalangui has had urban-type settlement status since 1939.

Population development

year Residents
1959 5658
1970 5026
1979 5228
1989 4745
2002 2800
2010 2112

Note: census data

traffic

Kalangui is on the regional road 76K-012 (formerly R431) Pervomaiski  - Kondui . A road branches off 15 km southwest to the settlement of Chada-Bulak, 45 km from Kalangui, north of Scherlowaya Gora on the A350 highway (formerly A166), which connects Chita with the border with the People's Republic of China near Sabaikalsk . Khada-Bulak is also the closest train station on the Karymskaya  - Sabaikalsk route.

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. Kalangui in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)