Kalga (place)
Village
Kalga
Калга
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Kalga ( Russian Калга ) is a village (selo) in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 3425 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 400 km as the crow flies east-southeast of the regional capital Chita on the south-eastern flank of the Nertscha Mountains (Nertschinski chrebet) with the Klitschka ridge (Klitschkinski chrebet) in front of it . It is located on the upper reaches of the Kalga river of the same name , a tributary of the Argun tributary, Verkhnyaya Borsja .
Kalga is the administrative center of the Rajons Kalganski and seat and only town in the rural community Kalganskoje selskoje posselenije.
history
The village was founded in 1777 by exiled participants in the Pugachev uprising . Cossacks were settled in the middle of the 19th century , and from 1872 to 1918 Kalga had the status of stanitsa . From 1926 the village belonged to the Byrkinski rajon, before it became the administrative seat of one of the divorced rajons in 1942.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1902 | 2054 |
1959 | 3369 |
1970 | 4061 |
1979 | 4201 |
1989 | 4412 |
2002 | 3735 |
2010 | 3425 |
Note: census data from 1959
traffic
Kalga is on the regional road R430 Borsja - Alexandrowski Zavod - Nerchinsky Zavod .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Kalga in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)