Kyren

Village Kyren Кырен ( Russian ) Хэрэн ( Buryat ) Federal district far East republic Buryatia Rajon Tunkinski Village since 1990 population 5406 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 750  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 30147 Post Code 671010 License Plate 03 OKATO 81 251 820 001 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 41 ′  N , 102 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  N , 102 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Buryatia

Kyren ( Russian Кыре́н ; Buryat Хэрэн , Cheren ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) with 5406 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is about 380 km in a straight line west of Republic capital Ulan-Ude in Tunkabecken , the south-west to the Lake Baikal between the southeastern part of the Sayan , Tunkinskije Golzy called, and the western foothills Khamar-Daban -Gebirges extends. The Tunkinskije Golzy rise steeply a good 20 km north of Kyren to almost 3300  m , while almost 40 km southwest of the summit of the Baischint-Ula in the mountain range between Sajan and Chamar-Daban along the Mongolian border reaches 2995  m . Large parts of both mountains are occupied by the Tunka National Park, whose administration is located in Kyren. The place is on the right bank of the Angara tributary Irkut , into which the river Kyren flows from the right.

Kyren is the administrative center of the Rajons Tunkinski and seat and only town in the rural community posselenije Kyrenskoje selskoje .

history

The village has been known since the beginning of the 19th century when a Buddhist monastery ( Dazan ) was built there in 1806 , which developed into the religious center of this part of Buryatia. Since 1923 Kyren has been the administrative seat of a Rajon. From 1975 to 1990 it had urban-type settlement status .

The Dazan, which was closed in the Soviet period in 1935, was restored from 1991.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2172
1959	3731
1970	5526
1979	6141
1989	6128
2002	5433
2010	5406

Note: census data

traffic

Kyren is located on the A333 (formerly A164) trunk road , which branches off the M55 Irkutsk - Chita a good 100 km east at Kultuk not far from Slyudjanka on Lake Baikal and from Kyren in a westerly direction almost 100 km further to Mondy , where a border crossing crosses the 1829  m high Mungijn-Daba pass in the Mongolian Chöwsgöl-Aimag . The nearest train station is Slyudyanka on the Trans-Siberian Railway .

Kyren has a small regional airport ( ICAO code UIIN ).

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)