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Kosh-Agach ( Russian Кош-Агач ) is an extensive mountain village in the southeastern part of the Altai Republic (southwest Siberia, Russia ) with 7900 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is located in the Tschuja steppe (Tschuiski steppe) , a low -vegetation plain in the southeast of the Russian Altai , named after the Tschuja , a right tributary of the Ob -Quell river Katun , at an altitude of almost 2000 meters . The Tschuja originates from the Kysylschin and Tschaganka headwaters near Kosh-Agach. Kosch-Agatsch is just under 300 kilometers (as the crow flies) southeast of the republic capital Gorno-Altaisk .
The area around the place is one of the driest and coldest in the Altai in winter; the measured absolute minimum temperature was -62 ° C.
The place is the administrative center of the sparsely populated (less than 1 inhabitant / km²) district of the same name Kosh-Agach and forms the municipality of Kosh -Agach ( Кош-Агачское сельское поселение ). The place and the Rajon belong to the border area, which requires a special permit to enter.
history
Kosh-Agach ( Altaic for two trees ) was founded in 1801 and quickly became a regionally important trading center on one of the routes from the Russian Empire to the Chinese Empire , which also includes the area of today's Mongolia in the south-east .
On September 27, 2003 and the following days, the place and especially the infrastructure of the area were seriously affected by a strong earthquake ( magnitude 7.3) with an epicenter only 50 kilometers away and a series of aftershocks. Although there were only a few fatalities, as many of the predominant wooden houses in the village withstood the quake, a total of hundreds of buildings in the area were destroyed and almost 2000 damaged.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1939 | 1362 |
| 1959 | 1655 |
| 1970 | 1865 |
| 1979 | 2553 |
| 1989 | 3501 |
| 2002 | 5701 |
| 2010 | 7900 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
Kosch-Agatsch is the starting point for trekking tours in the mountains of the southeast Altai, in particular the almost 4000 m high Southern Tschuja-Kamm ( Yuzhno-Tschuisker Kamm ).
In Rajon Kosh-Agach were in different places petroglyphs found, ten kilometers from the village near the road to Mongolian border. The area is also rich in other historical monuments, such as Kurganen . In 1993, for example, a well-preserved female mummy was discovered in a kurgan on the Ukok plateau south of the southern Chuja ridge near the Chinese border , which could be assigned to the almost 2500 year old Pasyryk culture . The significant find was named "Princess of Ukok".
Infrastructure
Kosh-Agach is on the M52 trunk road , which runs from Novosibirsk through the Altai region and the Altai Republic - here called Chujatrakt - to the Mongolian border near Taschanta (50 km southeast of Kosh-Agach; another 21 km to the border).
The place had a small regional airport with regular connections to Gorno-Altaisk and Barnaul ( ICAO code UNBA ), which has been out of service since the 1990s.
The first large solar park in Russia is located north of Kosch-Agatsch . With an output of 10 MW by now, it was opened in September 2014.
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)
- ↑ Earthquake Series 2003 ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on a RAN website (Russian, partly English)
- ↑ Earthquake of September 27, 2003 ( Memento of the original of September 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Earthquake website USGS (English)
Web links
- Official website of Kosh-Agach Raion (Russian)
- Orographic map of the Altai (to be uploaded), TU Dresden
