Kyzyl-Maschalyk

Village Kyzyl -Maschalyk Кызыл-Мажалык ( Russian ) Кызыл-Мажалык ( Tuvinian ) Federal district Siberia republic Tuva Rajon | Koschuun Barun-Chemchikski Founded 1929 Village since 1996 population 5072 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 860  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 39441 Post Code 668040 License Plate 17th OKATO 93 210 830 001 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 9 ′  N , 90 ° 35 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 30 ″  N , 90 ° 34 ′ 30 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Tuva

Kyzyl-Maschalyk ( Tuvan and Russian Кызыл-Мажалык ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Tuva ( Russia ) with 5072 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located in southern Siberia, in the western part of the Tuvinian Basin, about 275 kilometers as the crow flies west-southwest of the republic capital Kyzyl and four kilometers south of the small town of Ak-Dowurak . Between Kyzyl-Maschalyk and Ak-Dowurak, the Yenisei tributary Chemchik flows past in an easterly direction.

Kyzyl-Maschalyk (Tuvinian for red hill ) is the administrative center of the Koschuun ( Rajons ) Barun-Chemtschikski . The village is the only locality of the rural community (Tuvinian Sumon ) Kysyl-Maschalykskoje selskoje posselenije.

history

Kyzyl-Maschalyk emerged in the 1920s as an administrative center for the of semi-nomadic living Tuvan pastoralists inhabited area to the west of the former Tuvan People's Republic . The year of foundation is 1929. In 1959 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement , which it lost again in 1996. Today it is the most populous village in the republic.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	4887
1970	4423
1979	4983
1989	5754
2002	5046
2002	5072

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

A162 trunk road near Kyzyl-Maschalyk

The place is the center of an area, the main economic branch of which is cattle and horse husbandry as well as the cultivation of grain, potatoes, vegetables and fodder plants. There is a brick factory, two dairies and a meat processing plant in the village.

The highway A162 runs through Kyzyl-Maschalyk, coming from the capital Kyzyl to the village of Teeli , the center of the neighboring, westernmost Tuva Koschuun. At the place she crosses the Chemchik; to the north the A161 branches off towards Khakassia .

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. ↑ Kyzyl-Maschalyk in the section Geography of Russia on clow.ru (Russian)