Chadan

city Chadan Чадан ( Russian ) Чадаана ( Tuvinian ) Federal district Siberia republic Tuva Rajon | Koschuun Dsun-Chemchiksky Founded before 1873 City since 1945 surface 104  km² population 9035 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 87 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 820  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 39434 Post Code 668110, 668111 License Plate 17th OKATO 93 215 501 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 17 '  N , 91 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '0 "  N , 91 ° 34' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Tuva

List of cities in Russia

Chadan ( Russian Чадан ; Tuvinian Чадаана , Tschadaana ) is a city in the autonomous republic of Tuva (southern Siberia, Russia ) with 9035 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the Tuvinian Basin between the West Sayan and the Tannu-ola Mountains , about 225 km west of the republic's capital Kyzyl , on the Chadan River , a right tributary of the Chemchik, which flows into the Yenisei . The climate is highly continental .

The city of Chadan is the administrative center of Koschuun ( Rajons ) Dsun-Chemchik .

Chadan is on the A162 Kyzyl– Ak- Dovurak road .

history

A settlement on the site of today's city of Chadan has been known since 1873. In 1945, after Tuwas annexed to the Soviet Union , the place received city rights. Tschadan refers to low-growing bushland in Tuvinian .

Population development

year	Residents
1959	4,709
1970	7,589
1979	8,985
1989	10,775
2002	9,454
2010	9,035

Note: census data

Culture and sights

There is a small local history museum in Chadan with a focus on ethnography and local history.

The Ustuu-Churee ( Устуу-Хурээ ) world music festival is held in the town every year , named after the nearby Buddhist monastery of the same name , which was built at the beginning of the 20th century and destroyed during the Soviet era, but is to be rebuilt.

economy

In the vicinity of the village, hard coal is mined in the Cholbodscha opencast mine ( Холбоджинский разрез ) . In the city itself there is a food industry based on agriculture in the Rajon (grain, cattle, sheep).

sons and daughters of the town

• Sergei Schoigu (* 1955), Russian politician and army general, Minister of Defense since 2012
• Opan Sat (* 1987), Russian, then Turkish wrestler and three-time European champion

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)

Web links

• Chadan on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Website of the Ustuu Churee Festival (Russian, partly English)