Kyra (place)
Village
Kyra
Кыра
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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 |
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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
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Kyra in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)