Kischinga

Village Kischinga Кижинга ( Russian ) Хэжэнгэ ( Buryat ) Federal district far East republic Buryatia Rajon Kischinginski Founded 1915 Earlier names Schuluuta (1915-1941) population 6373 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 700  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 30141 Post Code 671450 License Plate 03 OKATO 81 227 833 001 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 51 '  N , 109 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '0 "  N , 109 ° 55' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Buryatia

Kishinga ( Russian Кижинга ; Buryat Хэжэнгэ , Cheschenge ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) with 6373 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 160 km as the crow flies east of the republic capital Ulan-Ude on the left bank of the river of the same name, which flows almost 10 km northeast into the Chudan , a left tributary of the Uda . The Kishinga flows through a wide valley between the Zagan-Daban ridge in the northwest and the almost 1600  m high Zagan-Churtei ridge in the southeast, the ridge of which marks the border to the neighboring region of Transbaikalia about 30 km from Kishinga .

Kischinga is the administrative center of the Rajons Kischinginski and seat of the rural community Kischinginski somon , which in addition to the village Kischinga nor the villages Bachlaita, Krasny Yar and Uschchaita belong.

history

The village was founded in 1915 under the Buryat name Shuluuta ( Шулуута ). Since 1940 it has been the center of a Rajon named after the river; the following year the place was renamed Kischinga. In 1959 the Rajon was temporarily annexed to the Chorinski rajon , but was restored in 1966.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	4593
1979	5996
1989	7347
2002	6579
2010	6373

Note: census data

traffic

Kishinga is located on a road that branches off the regional road R436 Ulan-Ude - Sosnowo-Oserskoje  - Tschita at Chorinsk, 35 km to the north, and leads south over the Zagan-Churtei ridge into the Chilok valley, where it runs above the About 70 km away from the city of Chilok, you can reach the Gyrschelun station on the Trans-Siberian Railway (5951 km from Moscow ) and the M55 Irkutsk  - Chita road. In a westerly direction, a road leads via Novoiljinsk to the neighboring district center Saigrajewo , another road up the Kishinga to Novokishinginsk .

A few kilometers south of Kishinga ran the southern branch of the Chandagatai narrow-gauge railway, which was built in 1934 and was mainly used for forestry purposes, and which began in Novoiljinsk on the Trans-Siberian Railway (km 5736) . The branch line to Churtei in the east of the Kischinginski rajon was only completed in the 1980s, but with the entire network, which is over 300 km long, was shut down by 2004.

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)