Muchorschibir
Village
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Muchorschibir ( Russian Мухоршибирь ; Buryat Мухар-Шэбэр , Muchar-Scheber ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) with 5207 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 90 km as the crow flies south of the republic capital Ulan-Ude on the northern edge of the 1300 m high Sagan ridge (Saganski chrebet). It is located on the river Muchorschibirka not far from its confluence with the right Chilok tributary Suchara (also Sulchara ).
Muchorschibir is the administrative center of the Rajons Muchorschibirski and seat and only town in the rural community Muchorschibirskoje selskoje posselenije .
history
A place in the place of today's village was first mentioned in the 1730s in the records of Gerhard Friedrich Müller , who traveled the area as a participant in the Second Kamchatka Expedition. In the 19th century Muchorschibir became the seat of a Volost of the Ujezds Verkhneudinsk, and since 1927 it has been the center of a Rajon.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 2798 |
1959 | 3647 |
1970 | 4399 |
1979 | 5118 |
1989 | 5903 |
2002 | 5474 |
2010 | 5207 |
Note: census data
traffic
The M55 trunk road , which connects Irkutsk with Chita and is part of the transcontinental road link, runs through Muchorschibir . At the place the regional road R441 branches off from this , which leads via the neighboring Rajonzentrum Bitschura to Kjachta on the border with Mongolia .
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)