Mom (Irkutsk)

Urban-type settlement Mama Мама Federal district Siberia Oblast Irkutsk Rajon Mamsko-Chuisky head Valery Belykh Founded 1928 Urban-type settlement since 1932 population 3630 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 210  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 39569 Post Code 666811 License Plate 38, 85, 138 OKATO 25 224 551 Website mamaslyuda.ru Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 18 '  N , 112 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 18 '30 "  N , 112 ° 54' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Irkutsk Oblast

Mama ( Russian Ма́ма ) is an urban-type settlement in the Irkutsk Oblast in Russia with 3630 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 850 km as the crow flies northeast of the Irkutsk Oblast Administrative Center on the northern edge of the Stanovoi Highlands (in this part called North Baikal Highlands (Severo-Baikalskoje nagorje) ) and west of the Patom Highlands . It is located on the left bank of the Lena tributary Witim , immediately below the confluence of the left tributary Mama .

Mama is the administrative center of the Rajons Mamsko-Tschuiski and seat of the municipality Mamskoje gorodskoje posselenije, which also includes the settlements Zarya (directly opposite on the other bank of mum) Teterinsk (4 km south-east on the right bank of the Vitim) and Woronzowka (60 km north, on the right bank of the Witim) belong.

history

The site was founded in 1928 as a base for exploring mica ( muscovite ) deposits in the area, which had been known but not exploited since the 17th century. Mama received urban-type settlement status as early as 1932. In 1951 the place became the administrative seat of the newly created Mamsko-Tschuiski rajon (named after the rivers Mama and Tschuja , which flow through it).

Population development

year	Residents
1939	6901
1959	5025
1970	5348
1979	6206
1989	6918
2002	4352
2010	3630

Note: census data

traffic

Mama lies is the end point of the regional road 25N-004, which is currently only passable in winter and is partly under construction, which begins at the city of Bodaibo 136 km away , which in turn can be reached via the 220 km long 25K-023 from Taksimo in Buryatia , where is the nearest train station is on the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM). South of Mama, at the Lugowski settlement on the river, a road branches off from 25N-004 to the mining settlements of Gorno-Tschuiski and Sogdiondon on the upper reaches of the Great Tschuja.

Mama has an airport ( ICAO code UIKM ), from which there are connections to Irkutsk several times a week.

Web links

• Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)

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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line