Nizhnyaya Shakhtama

Village Nizhnyaya Shakhtama Нижняя Шахтама Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Schelopuginsky Village since 195x population 264 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 780  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30266 Post Code 673612 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 252 000 017 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 23 '  N , 117 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '0 "  N , 117 ° 41' 20"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

Nizhnyaya Shakhtama ( Russian: Ни́жняя Шахтама́ ) is a village (selo) in the Transbaikalia region ( Russia ) with 264 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 300 km as the crow flies east-southeast of the regional administrative center Chita in the low mountain range south of the Borschtschowotschnygebirge , on the northern flank of a ridge with the mountain Uchashchina rising at a height of 1400  m . It is mainly located on the left bank of the eponymous Schachtama (the place name means Lower Schachtama ) directly above its confluence with the right Onon tributary Unda .

Nizhnyaya Shakhtama belongs to the Shelopuginsky Rajon and is about 30 km south-southeast from its administrative seat Shelopugino . The village is the seat of the rural municipality of Nizhne- Shakhtaminskoje selskoje posselenije, which also includes the settlement of Sivachi (10 km north) and the village of Undinskye Kawykutschi (6 km north).

history

The village emerged in the 19th century as a settlement for exiles who worked there in gold mining. Mining expanded considerably from the 1920s. Nizhnyaya Shakhtama grew rapidly and received urban-type settlement status in 1936 . With the gradual depletion of the gold reserves and the development of a molybdenum deposit from 1941, the center of mining activities shifted to Vererschino-Schachtaminski (about Upper Shakhtama settlement ) a good 15 km southeast, upstream on the Schachtama . After this had also become an urban-type settlement in 1948, Nizhnyaya Shakhtama became a village again in the 1950s after the mine there was closed in 1951. The population fell from over 10,000 in 1939 to less than 3,000 in 1959 and is now only a few hundred.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	10,271
2002	279
2010	264

Note: census data

traffic

Nizhnyaya Shakhtama is on the local road 76K-151, which branches off the Undinskije Kawykutschi part of the municipality from the regional road 76A-008 (formerly on this section R429) Sretensk  - Gasimursky Sawod  - Nerchinsky Sawod and leads the Shakhtama up to Vershino-Shakhtaminsky .

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. ↑ Nizhnyaya Shakhtama in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)