Schagonar

city Shagonar Hagonar Federal district Siberia republic Tuva Rajon | Koschuun Ulug-Khemsky Founded 1888 City since 1945 surface 59  km² population 10,956 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 186 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 640  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 39436 Post Code 668210 License Plate 17th OKATO 93 254 501 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 32 '  N , 92 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '0 "  N , 92 ° 54' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Tuva

List of cities in Russia

Shagonar ( Russian Шагонар , Tuvinian also Шагаан-Арыг / Schagaan-Aryg) is a city in the autonomous republic of Tuva (southern Siberia, Russia ) with 10,956 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Between Shagonar and the capital Kyzyl

The city is located in the Tuvinian Basin between West Sayan and Tannu-ola Mountains , about 125 km west of the republic capital Kyzyl , on the left bank of the Yenisei . The climate is highly continental .

The city of Shagonar is the administrative center of the Koschuun ( Rajons ) Ulug-Chem.
It is located on the A162 Kyzyl - Ak-Dowurak - Teeli road and has a small airport.

history

Schagonar was founded in 1888 and received city ​​rights after Tuwas annexed to the Soviet Union in 1945. Because of the flooding of the Sajano-Schuschensker reservoir , the original city was abandoned in the 1970s and rebuilt about 7 kilometers to the east and higher.

The place name is derived from a Tuvinian transformation (Schagaan-Aryg) of the Mongolian name Zaganaryg for white dry valley .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	4.155
1970	4,512
1979	5,455
1989	10,084
2002	11.008
2010	10,956

Note: census data

Culture and sights

There is a small archaeological museum in Shagonar.

economy

The city's economy is determined by the building materials and - as the center of an agricultural area - the food industry.

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

• Shagonar on mojgorod.ru (Russian)