Kyra (place)

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Village
Kyra
Кыра
Federal district far East
region Transbaikalia
Rajon Kyrinski
Founded 1872
population 4563 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center 900  m
Time zone UTC + 9
Telephone code (+7) 30235
Post Code 674250
License Plate 75, 80
OKATO 76 224 000 001
Geographical location
Coordinates 49 ° 35 '  N , 111 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '45 "  N , 111 ° 58' 15"  E
Kyra (location) (Russia)
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Situation in Russia
Kyra (place) (Transbaikalia region)
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Location in the Transbaikalia region

Kyra ( Russian Кыра ) is a village (selo) in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 4563 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is just 300 km as the crow flies south-southwest of the regional capital Chita Mongolia between the 1500  m low mountain ridges Stanowik in the north and Onon-Baldschinski in the south. The border with Mongolia runs about 20 km away. It is located on the left bank of the eponymous Onon tributary Kyra .

Kyra is the administrative center of the Rajons Kyrinski and seat and only town in the rural community Kyrinskoje selskoje posselenije.

history

The place emerged from a border guard station established in 1728 between the Russian and the Chinese Empire . In 1872 it became a Cossack settlement ; this year is considered the actual year of foundation. Kyra has been the administrative seat of a Rajon since 1926.

Population development

year Residents
1939 1983
1959 3746
1970 4448
1979 4761
1989 5101
2002 4654
2010 4563

Note: census data

traffic

Kyra is on a road that branches off about 50 km east of the A167 , which branches off the A166 at Darassun (also a station of the Trans-Siberian Railway ) to the Mongolian border in the direction of Choibalsan .

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. Kyra in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)