Talaja (Magadan)

Urban-type settlement Talaya Талая Federal district far East Oblast Magadan Rajon Hasynsky Founded 1904 Urban-type settlement since 1963 population 422 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 720  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 41342 Post Code 686117 License Plate 49 OKATO 44 219 566 Geographical location Coordinates 61 ° 8 '  N , 152 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 61 ° 8 '0 "  N , 152 ° 23' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Magadan Oblast

Talaja ( Russian Та́лая ) is an urban-type settlement and health resort in the Magadan Oblast ( Russia ) with 422 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

General view of the settlement

The place is about 200 km as the crow flies north-northeast of the Magadan Oblast Administrative Center on the right bank of the Talaja, a left tributary of the right Kolyma tributary Bujunda .

Talaya belongs to the Hasynsky Rajon and is located about 140 km northeast of its administrative center Palatka . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Talaya.

history

The place was founded in 1904 after a spring of healing water was discovered there in 1868 by the merchant Afanassi Buschujew. During the Soviet period, Talaya developed into the only regionally significant balneological spa based on a thermal spring and healing mud deposits in the nearby Nalimnoye Lake. Since May 28, 1963 Talaja has the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	2266
1979	3525
1989	4412
2002	1136
2010	422

Note: census data

traffic

Talaja is end point of a good 30 km long road north of Atka , close to the pass over the Maimadschinski-crest of Kolymagebirges of the highway R504 Kolyma branches. The R504 connects Magadan with Nizhny Bestjach near Yakutsk and was previously numbered M56 (number still in use until 2017 as an alternative).

Web links

• Talaja Sanatorium website (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)