Tschara (place)

Village Tschara ара Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Kalarski population 1903 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 710  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30261 Post Code 674150 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 215 000 001 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 54 '  N , 118 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 54 '15 "  N , 118 ° 15' 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

Tschara ( Russian Ча́ра ) is a village (selo) in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 1903 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 620 km as the crow flies northeast of the regional capital Chita on the left bank of the left-hand Oljokma tributary of the Chara . The Tschara flows through the Upper Tscharasenke , which is enclosed in the northwest by the Kodar Mountains and in the southeast by the Kalar Mountains and Udokan Mountains , up to 3000  m high mountain ranges in the eastern part of the Stanovo Highlands . A few kilometers southwest of the village are the Tschara-Sands (Tscharskije peski), an area of ​​more than 25 km² of dunes .

Chara is the administrative center of the Rajons Kalarski and seat of the rural community Tscharskoje selskoje posselenije, also owns the seven kilometers north-northeast situated village Kjust-Kemda to.

history

The place was created in its current form in place of an older, insignificant settlement in the early 1930s. In 1932 he took over the function of the administrative seat of the Kalarski rajon formed in 1931 from the village of Kyust-Kemda; after the interim dissolution of the Rajon again from 1938. Tschara was for several decades the most important center of the very sparsely populated northern part of Transbaikalia ( Chita Oblast until 2008 ), especially for geological and mining activities. With the construction of the Baikal-Amur-Magistrale (BAM) - the railway line from Tayshet to Sovetskaya Gawan  - in the 1970s to 1980s, it lost this role to the Novaya Chara urban-type settlement built 12 km south of the railway line (“New -Tschara ”), but remained the administrative center.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	595
1959	955
1970	1078
1979	2649
1989	3441
2002	2063
2010	1903

Note: census data

traffic

There is a road connection to the Novaya Tschara settlement 16 km away by road and to Kyust-Kemda. Not far from the village, the road to Novaya Tschara crosses the river Tschara, which is about 150 meters wide. The station of the same name is located in Novaya Tschara at kilometer 1719 on the Baikal-Amur highway. From Novaya Tschara, the road follows the railway line in both directions, better overall to the west.

Tschara Airport ( ICAO code UIAR ), which opened in 1947 and is served by Angara Airlines , is located on the northern edge of the town .

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)