Raichichinsk

city Raychikhinsk Райчихинск flag coat of arms Federal district far East Oblast Amur Urban district Raichichinsk head Viktor Radchenko Founded 1932 Earlier names Raitschicha (until 1944) City since 1944 surface 377  km² population 20,534 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 54 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41647 Post Code 676770-676776 License Plate 28 OKATO 10 420 Website www.raychihinsk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 49 ° 48 '  N , 129 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 48 '0 "  N , 129 ° 24' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Amur Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Raitschichinsk ( Russian Райчи́хинск ) is a city in the Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 20,534 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Raitschichinsk is located in the southeast part of the Seja-Bureja plain in the Far East of Russia, about 40 kilometers from the Amur and the Chinese border. The city is located 165 kilometers east of the Oblast capital Blagoveshchensk .

It is directly subordinate to the oblast administration. The administrative structure of the city ​​of Raichichinsk also includes the urban-type Shiroki settlement six kilometers to the east with 1,488 inhabitants and the village of Ugolnoye with only 37 inhabitants, so that the total population is 24,095 (2009 calculation).

At the 1989 census , 90% of the population were Russians , 5.7% Ukrainians , 1.5% Belarusians and 0.8% Tatars .

history

On the Raitschichinskoje lignite deposit , which has been known since the end of the 19th century and named after the Raitschicha river, mining began in 1913 with the construction of a tunnel on the middle course of the Kiwda stream east of today's city.

In 1932 the settlement was Raitschicha ( Райчиха ) established in the wake of intensified coal mining in the region. From 1938 to 1942 the Raitschichlag existed in Raitschicha , a labor camp in the Gulag system with up to 11,000 inmates who were employed in coal mining.

On May 23, 1944, the place was raised to the city and received its current name.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3,840
1959	27,456
1970	25,157
1979	28,060
1989	27,873
2002	24,498
2010	20,534

Note: census data

education

Raitschichinsk has a medical college, a business evening school and three technical vocational schools.

Economy and Infrastructure

Raitschichinsk is the center of lignite mining. There are two open-cast mines , Severo-Vostotschny and Jerkowezki , which, together with the remaining holes, practically surround the city on all sides. There are also mechanical engineering, building materials and light industry companies.

The city is the end of a 39 kilometer long railway line built in 1936 that branches off the Trans-Siberian Railway in Bureja . There is an extensive works network for coal transport in the area.

sons and daughters of the town

• Sergei Saweljew (1948–2005), cross-country skier who started for the Soviet Union in the 1970s

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. ^ Raitschichlag on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.
3. ↑ Official website of the city (Russian)

Web links

• Official website of the city administration (Russian)
• Raitschichinsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)