Saigrajewo
Urban-type settlement
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Saigrajewo ( Russian Заигра́ево ; Buryat Загарай , Sagarai, also Доодо Ангар , Doodo Angar ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) with 5586 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The village is just 50 km straight line east of the Republic capital Ulan-Ude below the western end of the nearly 1,300 m high Chudan comb (Chudanski Chrebet). It is mainly located on the left bank of the Brjanka , a left tributary of the Uda , just under 20 km above the mouth; a smaller district is a good kilometer away on the other side of the valley.
Saigrajewo is the administrative center of the Rajons Saigrajewski and seat and only town of the municipality Possjolok Saigrajewo .
history
The place became the center of a Rajon in 1935. Since 1973 Saigrajewo has had the status of an urban-type settlement.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 1906 |
1959 | 3537 |
1970 | 4067 |
1979 | 5126 |
1989 | 5565 |
2002 | 5614 |
2010 | 5586 |
Note: census data
traffic
Saigrajewo is on the Trans-Siberian Railway (km 5698 from Moscow ) and the road that follows the railway line between Ulan-Ude and Petrowsk-Sabaikalski , both on the M55 Irkutsk - Chita road .
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)