Kitschera (place)

Urban-type settlement Kitschera Кичера Federal district far East republic Buryatia Rajon Severobaikalsk Urban-type settlement since 1979 population 1375 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 470  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 30130 Post Code 671719 License Plate 03 OKATO 81 245 554 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 56 '  N , 110 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 56 '0 "  N , 110 ° 6' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Buryatia

Kitschera ( Russian Кичера ) is an urban-type settlement in the autonomous republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) with 1,375 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is not far from the common delta formed by the Upper Angara and Kitschera rivers at their confluence with the northern end of Lake Baikal . The Upper Angaragebirge (Werchneangarsker Gebirge), which represent the watershed between the two Baikal tributaries, begins northeast of the village . Kitschera is about 480 kilometers (as the crow flies) north-northeast of the republic capital Ulan-Ude .

The settlement belongs to Severo-Baikalski Raion (North Baikal ), whose administrative center Nizhneangarsk is about 40 kilometers to the south-west.

history

Kitschera station, built in Estonian style

The place was created in the mid-1970s in connection with the construction of the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM). The railway station and settlement were built by construction workers from the Estonian SSR at the time (as part of the propaganda for the All- Union Komsomol building project BAM, one or more regions of the former Soviet Union took on sponsorship of most of the stations and settlements to be built along the route).

In 1979 urban-type settlement status was given. Regular rail traffic on the entire section between Lake Baikal (Severobaikalsk) and Novaya Tschara in northern Transbaikalia began in 1989. After the completion of the railway line and as a result of the economic crisis from the end of the 1980s, almost half of the residents left the place.

Population development

year	Residents
1989	2715
2002	1623
2010	1375

Note : census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Kitschera is a station on the Baikal-Amur main line (1127 km from Taischet ), which is practically the only economic factor. The route crosses the river of the same name about two kilometers west of the village.

The road following the BAM also leads through Kitschera, from which a short cul-de-sac branches off to the village of Verkhnyaya Saimka, just under ten kilometers away, with the last landing stage on the Upper Angara before it flows into Lake Baikal.

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)

Web links

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