Kunerma (place)
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Kunerma
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Kunerma ( Russian Кунерма ) is an urban-type settlement in Irkutsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 59 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The settlement is located at the western foot of the Baikal Mountains , which are about 2000 meters high , a good 450 kilometers (as the crow flies) northeast of the Oblast capital Irkutsk in the wide, swampy valley of the Kunerma river of the same name , a tributary of the Ulkan in the Lena river system . The north-western shore of Lake Baikal on the other side of the high mountains is around 70 kilometers away.
Kunerma belongs to Rajon Kasatschinsko-Lenski , whose administrative center Kasatschinskoje located about 100 kilometers away to the northwest.
history
The place was created in the mid-1970s in a previously uninhabited area in connection with the construction of the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM), in the run-up to its mountain section through the Baikal Mountains with the almost seven kilometers long Baikal or Daban tunnel . The railway station and settlement were built by construction workers from the then Autonomous Soviet Republics of Checheno-Ingushetia , Dagestan and North Ossetia (as part of the propaganda for the all-union Komsomol building project BAM, one or more regions of the former Soviet Union sponsored most of the stations and settlements to be built along the route).
In 1978 urban-type settlement status was granted. Regular rail traffic on the entire section between Lena and Lake Baikal ( Severobaikalsk ) began in 1981. After the completion of the tunnel and railway line and as a result of the economic crisis from the end of the 1980s, however, most of the residents left the place, especially since the expectations for the economic development of the remote area linked to the construction of the railway line were not fulfilled. Despite the extremely small number of inhabitants, the place has so far retained its status as an urban-type settlement.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1979 | 1320 |
| 1989 | 586 |
| 2002 | 161 |
| 2010 | 59 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
The only economic factor is the station on the Baikal-Amur Mainline (route km 982 from Taischet ). The unpaved road following the railway also runs through the village.
literature
- Ernst Alexander Rauter : Kunerma, the place where nobody lives: as a West German guest worker in the Siberian taiga . Europaverlag, Vienna, Munich, Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-203-50706-4 .
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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line
