Chekhov (Sakhalin)

Village Chekhov ехов Federal district far East Oblast Sakhalin Rajon Cholmsk First mention after 1905 Earlier names Noda (until 1947) Village since 2004 population 3389 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 20  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 42433 Post Code 694670 License Plate 65 OKATO 64 254 000 010 Geographical location Coordinates 47 ° 26 '  N , 141 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 26 '0 "  N , 141 ° 59' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Sakhalin Oblast

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
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

View of Noda in Japanese times	Station forecourt with Chekhov monument (2011)	ul.Lenina (2011)

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)