Magdagachi
Urban-type settlement
Magdagachi
Магдагачи
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List of large settlements in Russia |
Magdagachi ( Russian Магдагачи ) is an urban-type settlement in the Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,897 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The settlement is located in the north of the Amur extending low mountain range in the Russian Far East , about 370 km (distance) north of Oblasthauptstadt Blagoveshchensk . A river of the same name flows through the place, which later flows into the left Amur tributary Olga .
Magdagatschi is the administrative center of the Magdagatschi Rajons of the same name .
history
The place was created in 1910 in connection with the construction of the Amur railway from Kuenga not far from Sretensk in Transbaikalia to Khabarovsk . The station and settlement were named after the river, and rail traffic on this section began in 1914.
In 1938 urban-type settlement status was given.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 13,652 |
1959 | 12,977 |
1970 | 15,059 |
1979 | 14,438 |
1989 | 15,578 |
2002 | 12.208 |
2010 | 10,897 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
There are forestry and railway companies in the settlement.
Magdagatschi is a station of the Trans-Siberian Railway (route km 7494 from Moscow ). The R297 Amur road, part of the Trans-Siberian road connection , also passes through the village .
At Magdagatschi there is a small regional airport ( IATA airport code GDG , ICAO code UHBI ), which is currently out of order.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Sergei Chebotaryov (* 1969), politician
- Ruslana Zychozka (* 1986), Ukrainian triple jumper
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)