Samagaltai

Village Samagaltai Самагалтай ( Russian ) Самагалдай ( Tuvinian ) Federal district Siberia republic Tuva Koschuun Tes-Khemsky population 3233 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 1250  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 39438 Post Code 668360 License Plate 17th OKATO 93 245 833 001 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 36 '  N , 95 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '0 "  N , 95 ° 0' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Tuva

Samagaltai ( Russian Самагалта́й , Tuvinian Самагалдай ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Tuva in Russia with 3233 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 130 km as the crow flies south-southeast of the republic capital Kyzyl on the southern edge of the Eastern Tannu-ola Mountains , in the extreme northeast of the Uws-Nuur basin . It is located on Tyttyg-Chem (also Samagaltai in the lower reaches ), which flows into Tes-Chem a good 15 km southwest of the right .

Samagaltai is the administrative center of the Koschuun ( Rajons ) Tes-Chemski and the seat and only locality of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Samagaltaiski sumon .

history

The village is one of the oldest settlements in the republic. It was mentioned as a Buddhist religious site as early as the 18th century . Until the declaration of independence of the Tuvinian People's Republic in 1921 with the capital in what was later to be Kyzyl, the administrative seat of the Urjanchai region was officially in Samagaltai, although Belozarsk (Kyzyl) had already developed into the center shortly after its establishment in 1914. Since 1923 Samagaltai has been the seat of the Tes-Chemski koschuun, named after the most important river in its area.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	1542
1970	2078
1979	2712
1989	3648
2002	3507
2010	3233

Note: census data

traffic

The village is on the federal trunk road R257 , which , coming from Krasnoyarsk via Abakan and Kyzyl, continues via the neighboring Koschuun center Ersin to the Mongolian border, which is a good 80 km away . In Samagaltai the regional road 93N-39 branches off in a westerly direction to Ak-Tschyraa , from there further than 93N-21 to the neighboring Koschuun center of Chandagaity, 200 km away .

Web links

• Official website of the Koschuun administration (Russian)

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)