Tarbagatai (Buryatia, Tarbagataiski)

Village Tarbagatai Тарбагатай Federal district far East republic Buryatia Rajon Tarbagataiski population 4308 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 550  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 30146 Post Code 671110 License Plate 03 OKATO 81 250 840 001 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 29 '  N , 107 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 '45 "  N , 107 ° 21' 45"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Buryatia

Tarbagatai ( Russian and Buryat Тарбагата́й ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Buryatia ( Russia ) with 4308 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 50 km as the crow flies south-southwest of the republic capital Ulan-Ude on the river Kuitunka, about 8 km above its confluence from the right into the Selenga .

Tarbagatai is the administrative headquarters Rajons Tarbagataiski and seat of the rural community posselenije Tarbagataiskoje selskoje, one of the next to the village Tarbagatai still the village Pesterewo.

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  Tarbagatai around 1900

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  Old Orthodox Church in Tarbagatai

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  Semeiskije women in Tarbagatai in traditional costume

history

In the well-known since the first half of the 18th century village, which initially also Pargabentei or Tarbatai was called, the settled from 1765 members of Old Believers denomination of semeiskie on. Their proportion of the population was over 80% at the beginning of the 20th century. From the middle of the 19th century, a regionally important fair took place in the village.

In 1923 Tarbagatai became the center of an aimak (rajons). This was dissolved in 1961 but restored in 1985.

Population development

year	Residents
1919	3391
1939	3092
1959	2989
1989	4618
2002	4253
2010	4308

Note: from 1939 census data

traffic

The M55 highway , which connects Irkutsk with Chita and is part of the transcontinental road link, runs through Tarbagatai . At the place a road branches off from this, which leads through the southwest part of the Rajon into the valley of the Chilok and finally reaches the regional road R441 Muchorschibir  - Kjachta west of Bitschura .

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)