Sretensk

city Sretensk Сретенск flag coat of arms Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Sretensk First mention 1689 City since 1789, renewed in 1926 surface 36  km² population 6850 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 190 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 450  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30246 Post Code 673500 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 240 501 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 15 '  N , 117 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '0 "  N , 117 ° 43' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

List of cities in Russia

Sretensk ( Russian Сретенск ) is a small town in the Transbaikalia region ( Russia ) with 6850 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located north of the Borschtschowotschnygebirge in Transbaikalia , about 380 km east of the regional capital Chita , on the river Schilka , the left headwaters of the Amur .

The city of Sretensk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .

history

The place was known as the Cossack winter camp since 1689 . In 1783 an ostrog was built. In 1789 Stretensk became a town and administrative center of a district ( Ujesds ). The name refers to the representation of the Lord (Russian Sretenije Gospodne ) - a chapel was consecrated on this day . In 1798, however, the place lost its city status again.

The spelling Stretensk was also used well into the 19th century .

In 1897 Sretensk became the provisional end point of the Transbaikal line of the Trans-Siberian Railway (the Chinese Eastern Railway through Manchuria to Vladivostok branched off 280 kilometers further west). From Sretensk goods and people were transported by steamboats on Shilka and Amur in the direction of Blagoveschensk and Khabarovsk . The place became an important trading settlement, at least before the Amur Railway was finally opened in 1916 (construction from 1908), which branched off from the original Trans-Siberian route further west for strategic reasons (distance from the Chinese border) and started through traffic.

Nevertheless, in 1926 Sretensk again received city rights.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1,400
1926	8,600
1939	13,528
1959	15,138
1970	13,805
1979	13,414
1989	10,445
2002	8,192
2010	6,850

Note: census data (rounded up to 1926)

Culture and sights

There is a small local museum in Sretensk.

Economy and Infrastructure

There are light, food and wood industries, in the Kokui settlement (10 km to the west) shipbuilding (smaller river boats).

Sretensk is the end point of a 52-kilometer branch line that branches off the main line of the Trans-Siberian Railway at Dunajewo ( Kuenga station ) . In Sretensk, the "road of republican importance" R426, which connects the south-eastern parts of the Transbaikalia region to the road network, has been crossing the Shilka since 1986.

sons and daughters of the town

• Vladimir Titov (* 1947), cosmonaut

See also

• List of cities in the Transbaikalia region

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

Commons : Sretensk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• On the history of Sretensk (Russian)
• Sretensk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)