Ogodja

Village Ogodscha Огоджа Federal district far East Oblast Amur Rajon Selemjinsky Founded 1896 Village since 2012 population 395 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 480  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41655 Post Code 676567 License Plate 28 OKATO 10 245 576 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 46 '  N , 132 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 46 '0 "  N , 132 ° 32' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Amur Oblast

Ogodscha ( Russian Огоджа ) is a village (selo) in the Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 395 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 450 km as the crow flies northeast of the administrative center of Blagoveshchensk in the low mountain range , which extends between the Selemjagebirge in the north and the northwestern foothills (Esop ridge) of the Burejagebirge in the east. It lies on the right bank of the Ogodscha river of the same name , which flows into the Selemdscha about 16 km to the northwest .

Ogodscha belongs to Rajon Selemdschinski and from its administrative headquarters Ekimchan away about 40 km southwest. It is the only village in the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Ogodscha.

history

The place was founded in 1896 as an Evenk winter camp. In his name means Evenk language about Sunny Valley. In the 1950s, coal mining began there to supply the gold mining sites in the area, and a small power plant was built in 1955. From 1958 to 2012 Ogodscha had urban-type settlement status .

In the 1990s, the power plant was decommissioned, and coal mining effectively came to a standstill in 2006. The economic decline goes hand in hand with ongoing population decline.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	962
1970	1055
1979	889
1989	835
2002	484
2010	395

Note: census data

traffic

Ogodscha is connected to the road network via an unpaved route leading in a north-easterly direction to the village of Koboldo, 25 km away on the right bank of the Selemdscha . North of Koboldo runs the Svobodny  - Fevralsk (on the Baikal-Amur Mainline ) - Ekimchan (there is a small regional airport), which opens up the far east of the oblast.

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)

Web links

• Ogodscha on the website of the administration of the Selemjinsky rajon (Russian)