Kurumkan

Village Kurumkan Курумкан ( Russian ) Хурамхаан ( Buryat ) Federal district far East republic Buryatia Rajon Kurumkanski population 5465 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 510  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 30149 Post Code 671640 License Plate 03 OKATO 81 230 844 001 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 20 ′  N , 110 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 45 ″  N , 110 ° 19 ′ 15 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Buryatia

Kurumkan ( Russian Курумка́н ; Buryat Хурамхаан , Churamchaan ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) with 5465 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 330 km as the crow flies northeast of the republic capital Ulan-Ude and a good 50 km from the east bank of Lake Baikal . It is located on the right bank of the Baikal tributary Barguzin . Immediately to the west, between Kurumkan and Lake Baikal, rises the Barguse Mountains , which reach their greatest height in the area at almost 2700  m . To the east, beyond the almost 30 km wide Bargusin valley, the Ikat Mountains rise to over 2000  m .

Kurumkan is the administrative seat of the Kurumkanski Rajons and the seat of the rural community Selskoje posselenije Kurumkan, which includes Kurumkan and the villages of Murgun, Tomokto and Unegetei.

history

Kurumkan first became the center of a newly created Rajon in 1944. In 1959 the Rajon was temporarily reintegrated into the Bargusinski rajon to the south , but restored in 1970.

Population development

year	Residents
1979	5617
1989	6687
2002	5957
2010	5465

Note: census data

traffic

Kurumkan is the end of the regional road R438, which comes from Ulan-Ude via Turuntajewo and reaches Lake Baikal near Gremjachinsk , and continues up the right bank of the Barguzin from Ust-Barguzin via the neighboring Rajon center of Barguzin , 90 km away . From Kurumkan it continues as a Rajon Road to the village of Uljunchan and the hot mineral springs at Kutscheger and Umchei in the northern part of the area, and from there on as an unpaved and difficult to drive route through the mountainous region between the Barguse Mountains and, primarily during the frosty season, only usable with off-road vehicles Northern Muja Mountains into the valley of the Upper Angara , where it reaches the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM) and the road that follows it at Novy Uojan . The route was laid out during the railway construction in 1974/1975, but has not been maintained since its completion in the 1980s. The expansion to a road that can be used all year round is planned, with which the northern part of the republic could then be reached from the capital Ulan-Ude without a detour via the Irkutsk Oblast west of Lake Baikal.

Kurumkan has a small airfield ( ICAO code UI69 ).

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)