Chekhov (Sakhalin)
Village
Chekhov
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Chekhov ( Russian Чехов , Japanese 野田町 , Noda- chō ) is a village (selo) in the Sakhalin Oblast ( Russia ) with 3389 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The village is located on the west coast of the Sakhalin Island , about 80 kilometers (as the crow flies) northwest of the Oblast capital Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk . The place belongs to the Kholmsk Raion , whose administrative center, the city of Kholmsk , is 45 kilometers away in a southerly direction.
Chekhov stretches from the coast a good three kilometers up the narrow valleys of the Rudanowskowo and Chekhovka rivers that flow into the sea.
history
The place was founded after 1905 as "Noda-chō", possibly derived from "nota", the Ainu word for "sea surface", as Sakhalin after the Treaty of Portsmouth , which ended the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905 Belonged to Japan. As a result of the Second World War , the city came to the Soviet Union and in 1947 received Soviet town charter under the name Chekhov in honor of the writer Anton Chekhov , who visited the then prison and exile island of Sakhalin in 1890 .
After the population had decreased continuously since the 1950s and significantly in the 1990s, Chekhov lost its city status in 2004 and has been a village (Selo) ever since.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1941 | 7366 |
1959 | 9220 |
1970 | 7949 |
1979 | 7881 |
1989 | 7901 |
2002 | 4944 |
2010 | 3389 |
Note: census data
Economy and Infrastructure
In Chekhov there are companies in the food and fishing industries. A previously existing small cellulose and paper mill was closed in the 1990s.
The place is on the narrow-gauge railway line ( cape gauge 1067 mm) running along the west coast of the island Ilyinsk - Shebunino (station Shakhta-Sakhalinskaya ). The regional road R495 runs through Chekhov , which also runs along the west coast of Cholmsk in a northerly direction via Uglegorsk and Lessogorskoje to Boschnjakowo .
photos
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)