Tschany (place)
Urban-type settlement
Chany
Chani
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Tschany ( Russian Чаны ) is an urban-type settlement in Novosibirsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 8,473 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
Tschany is located in the southeastern part of the West Siberian lowland , the Barabasteppe , about 400 km west of the oblast capital Novosibirsk and 50 km north of the outflowless Lake Tschany , which gave the place its name.
The Chany settlement is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .
The Trans-Siberian Railway runs through Tschany (2932 km from Moscow ).
history
Tschany was founded in 1875 as a hamlet Novopokrowskaja saimka ( Новопокровская заимка ), near which the Chany station was built during the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1890 and a village of the same name was created in 1892. In 1924 the place became the administrative center of Rajon. In 1947 urban-type settlement status was given.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 5872 |
1959 | 9086 |
1970 | 8167 |
1979 | 8951 |
1989 | 9607 |
2002 | 9039 |
2010 | 8473 |
Note: census data
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)
economy
Since the place is located in an important agricultural area, companies in the food industry predominate (milk, meat and grain products); there is also the construction industry.
Web links
- Rajon Administration website (Russian)