Kokui (Transbaikalia)

Urban-type settlement Kokui Кокуй Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Sretenski Urban-type settlement since 1938 population 7179 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 450  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30246 Post Code 673530 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 240 554 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 12 '  N , 117 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '15 "  N , 117 ° 33' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

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
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

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)
2. ↑ Kokui in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)