Talakan

Urban-type settlement Talakan Талакан Federal district far East Oblast Amur Rajon Bureiski Founded 197x Urban-type settlement since 1981 population 5176 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 290  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 41634 Post Code 676731 License Plate 28 OKATO 10 215 572 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 16 '  N , 130 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 16 '0 "  N , 130 ° 15' 45"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Amur Oblast

Talakan ( Russian Талака́н ) is an urban-type settlement in the Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 5176 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Dam of the Bureja dam near Talakan

The place is just under 200 km as the crow flies east of the Blagoveshchensk Oblast Administrative Center in the southwestern foreland of the Turana Mountains . It is located not far from the right bank of the Bureja , a good 3 km below (west) the dam of the Bureja dam .

Talakan belongs to Rajon Bureiski and from its administrative headquarters Nowobureiski located about 60 km north-northeast direction. It is the only village in the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Talakan.

history

The place arose from the 1970s in connection with the start of construction of the Bureja dam , as a housing estate for the construction workers and the later employees of the hydropower plant . In 1981 Talakan received urban-type settlement status. It got its name after a small river that flows 7 km above (northeast) from the right into the Bureja.

Population development

year	Residents
1989	4479
2002	6545
2010	5176

Note: census data

traffic

A road leads to Talakan and the Bureja Dam, which branches off almost 50 km southwest of the M58 Amur Chita  - Khabarovsk highway on its section between Savitinsk and Novobureisky. A few kilometers west of the Novobureiski district center, in the settlement of Bureja, is the nearest train station at kilometer 8030 (from Moscow ) of the Trans-Siberian Railway .

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)