Tokur

Federal district	far East
Oblast	Amur
Rajon	Selemjinsky
Founded	1939
Urban-type settlement since	1949
population	1091 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center	560 m
Time zone	UTC + 9
Telephone code	(+7) 41655
Post Code	676581
License Plate	28
OKATO	10 245 585
Geographical location
Coordinates	53 ° 8 ' N , 132 ° 54' E Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '15 " N , 132 ° 53' 30" E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in Amur Oblast

Tokur ( Russian Токур ) is an urban-type settlement in Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 1,091 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 500 km as the crow flies northeast of the Blagoveshchensk Oblast Administrative Center on the southern edge of the Selemdasha Mountains . It is located on the river Maly Karaurak a good 8 km above its confluence from the right (north) into the Selemdscha .

Tokur belongs to Rajon Selemdschinski and from its administrative headquarters Ekimchan about 8 km to the northeast. It is the only village in the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Tokur.

history

The place was founded in 1939 after a gold deposit was discovered there in the same year . It got its name after a brook flowing there. In 1949 Tokur became an urban-type settlement. Since the heyday of gold mining in the 1940s to 1960s, the population has been falling continuously.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	3222
1970	3176
1979	2665
1989	2452
2002	1171
2010	1091

Note: census data

traffic

The road to Tokur branches off 3 km west of the Ekimchan district center, where there is a small regional airport, from the road coming from Svobodny on the Trans-Siberian Railway 400 km away , which first follows the Seja and then the Selemjah upwards and at Fevralsk the Baikal Amur Magistrale (BAM) crosses.

Individual evidence

↑ ^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

Tokur on the website of the administration of the Selemjinsky rajon (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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)


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Urban-type settlements	Archara ^R \| Bureja \| Ekimchan ^R \| Fevralsk \| Yerofei Pavlovich \| Magdagatschi ^R \| Novobureiski ^R \| Novoraichichinsk \| Progress ^S \| Seryshevo ^R \| Siwaki \| Talakan \| Tokur \| Urusha \| Uschumun
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