Katschug

Urban-type settlement Katschug Качуг Federal district Siberia Oblast Irkutsk Rajon Katschugski head Yevgeny Sujew Founded 1686 Earlier names Sloppy Urban-type settlement since 1935 population 7011 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 520  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 39540 Post Code 666202 License Plate 38, 85, 138 OKATO 25 218 551 Website www.kachug-gorod.ru Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 58 '  N , 105 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '0 "  N , 105 ° 52' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Irkutsk Oblast

Katschug ( Russian Качу́г ) is an urban-type settlement in Irkutsk Oblast in Russia with 7011 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 200 km as the crow flies northeast of the Irkutsk Oblast Administrative Center west of the Baikal Mountains on both sides of the Lena , at the confluence of the right tributary Anga .

Katschug is the administrative center of the Katschugski Rajon and is the only town in the municipality of Katschugskoje gorodskoje posselenije. At the same time, the place is the seat of the rural community Katschugskoje selskoje posselenije, to which the villages Bolschije Goly, Bossogol, Isset, Kistenjowa, Krasnoyar, Malyje Goly, Sukhanai Baibet, Sutai, Timirjasewa and Tscheptychoi, as well as the Cheptychoi, belong within a radius of about 15 km .

history

The place was founded in 1686. Towards the end of the 17th century, Russians and Buryats lived there alongside the Evenks (then called Tungus) who lived in the area . The village name is from the Evenk word Kotscho derived designating a river bend. Initially, the form Katschig was used in Russian .

For more than 250 years Katschug remained the most important starting point for the waterway on the Lena from the Baikal region to Yakutia . In 1924, the administrative headquarters of was Ujesds Verkholensk moved to Katschug. On June 28, 1926 it became the center of a rajon named after him. Katschug has had the status of an urban-type settlement since 1935.

With the completion of the westernmost section of the later Baikal-Amur-Magistrale (BAM) from Taischet to Ust-Kut down the Lena in 1958, the importance of Katschug for traffic over the Lena decreased.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	10,868
1959	8,806
1970	8,859
1979	8,303
1989	8,936
2002	7,733
2010	7,011

Note: census data

traffic

Katschug is on the regional road 25N-013 (formerly R418), which comes from Irkutsk via Ust-Ordynski and reaches the Lena a little above the settlement, crosses it near the village and - with the exception of the last few kilometers - on the right bank of the river via Verkholensk to the north neighboring Rajonzentrum Schigalowo leads.

The Lena is navigable for smaller vehicles from Katschug, 3,970 km above the estuary (regular shipping today begins at the port of Ossetrowo in Ust-Kut, which is almost 500 km downstream). The small airport of the place ( ICAO code UIIX ) is not regularly served in passenger traffic since the 1990s, but is used for example the forest fire monitoring - and -bekämpfungseinheit Aerial Forest Protection Service .

Trivia

The crater " Kachug " on Mars , registered since 1988, is named after the place Katschug .

Web links

• Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)

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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line