Kokui (Transbaikalia)
Urban-type settlement
Kokui
Кокуй
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Kokui ( Russian Коку́й ) is an urban-type settlement in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 7179 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 275 km as the crow flies east of the regional capital Chita on the left bank of the Amur source river Schilka .
Kokui belongs to the Sretensky Raion and is located a good 10 km southwest of its administrative center Sretensk . The settlement is the seat of the municipality of Kokuiskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the villages of Bayan (20 km southwest) and Ust-Kurlych (8 km southwest).
history
The place was founded at the beginning of the 18th century. In the 19th century, Kokui became a Cossack settlement . A shipyard that was built around the turn of the 20th century was expanded considerably from 1934 to the Sretensk Shipyard (Sretenski sudostroitelny sawod) for fishing and river passenger ships as well as border patrol boats . As a result, the place received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1938.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1902 | 561 |
1923 | 1,046 |
1939 | 6.265 |
1959 | 10,043 |
1970 | 11,021 |
1979 | 11,570 |
1989 | 9,492 |
2002 | 8,119 |
2010 | 7.179 |
Note: from 1939 census data
traffic
Kokui is located at route km 39 of the Kuenga - Sretensk railway line , originally opened in 1897 as the easternmost section of the Transbaikal Railway ( Trans-Siberian Railway ), since the construction of the Amur Railway, which was completed in 1916, only a branch line.
Road connection exists to the north running regional road R426 Mogoitui - Nerchinsk - Sretensk.
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)
- ↑ Kokui in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)