Shireks

Federal district	far East
region	Transbaikalia
Rajon	Chernyshevsky
Founded	1954
Earlier names	Choktonga
Urban-type settlement since	1972
population	4565 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center	760 m
Time zone	UTC + 9
Telephone code	(+7) 30265
Post Code	673498
License Plate	75, 80
OKATO	76 248 558
Geographical location
Coordinates	52 ° 50 ′ N , 117 ° 18 ′ E Coordinates: 52 ° 49 ′ 30 " N , 117 ° 18 ′ 15" E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in the Transbaikalia region

Shireken ( Russian Жиреке́н ) is an urban-type settlement in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 4565 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 270 km as the crow flies east-northeast of the regional capital Chita to the left of the Aleur , a tributary of the Kuenga .

Shireken belongs to the Chernyshevsky Rajon and is located about 40 km north-northeast of its administrative center Chernyshevsk . The settlement is the seat of the township (gorodskoje posselenije) Shireken, which also includes the village of Osjornaya (18 km east) and the station settlement Kowekta (10 km north).

history

The place was founded in 1954 in connection with the discovery of a molybdenum deposit and was initially named Choktonga. Schireken has had the status of an urban-type settlement since 1972.

Population development

year	Residents
1979	566
1989	5493
2002	3937
2010	4565

Note: census data

traffic

Schireken is on the Trans-Siberian Railway (6633 km from Moscow ), which was electrified on this section in 1990 . A few kilometers west of the settlement the M58 trunk road runs from Chita to Khabarovsk .

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)
↑ Shireken in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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] Shireken in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)


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