Tarbagatai (Transbaikalia)

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Urban-type settlement
Tarbagatai
Тарбагатай
Federal district far East
region Transbaikalia
Rajon Petrovsk-Sabaikalsky
Urban-type settlement since 1946
population 2227 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center 740  m
Time zone UTC + 9
Telephone code (+7) 30236
Post Code 673040
License Plate 75, 80
OKATO 76 236 558
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 11 '  N , 109 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 '30 "  N , 109 ° 5' 45"  E
Tarbagatai (Transbaikalia) (Russia)
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Situation in Russia
Tarbagatai (Transbaikalia) (Transbaikalia Region)
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Location in the Transbaikalia region

Tarbagatai ( Russian Тарбагата́й ) is an urban-type settlement in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 2227 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 320 km as the crow flies west-southwest of the regional capital Chita on the right bank of the Chilok, which flows there north of the Jablonowy Mountains .

Tarbagatai belongs to the Petrovsk-Sabaikalski Raion and is located almost 30 km east of its administrative center Petrowsk-Sabaikalski . It is the seat and only locality of the municipality Tarbagataiskoje gorodskoje posselenije.

history

The settlement emerged after the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway in connection with the discovery of a nearby coal deposit between 1905 and 1907. Since 1946 Tarbagatai has had the status of an urban-type settlement.

Population development

year Residents
1959 4294
1970 3484
1979 3615
1989 3343
2002 2521
2010 2227

Note: census data

traffic

Tarbagatai is located on the Trans-Siberian Railway electrified on this section in 1974 (route km 5818 from Moscow ). To the north the settlement is bypassed by the trunk road R258 Baikal (formerly M55), which connects Irkutsk to Chita via Ulan-Ude and is part of the transcontinental road link.

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)
  2. Tarbagatai in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)