Churaptscha
Village
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Tschuraptscha ( Russian Чурапча́ ; Yakut Чурапчы ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russia with 8,769 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 140 km as the crow flies east of the republic capital Yakutsk in the southeastern part of the Central Yakut lowlands . It is located on the lake of the same name, which drains to the left Aldan tributary Tatta , which runs a few kilometers to the southeast .
Tschuraptscha is the administrative center of Ulus Tschuraptschinski . The village is the seat and only locality of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Tschuraptschinski nasleg.
history
The village was founded in 1725 in connection with the establishment of the Yakutsk-Okhotsk tract , a postal and trade route that was supposed to connect Yakutsk with the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk near Okhotsk (but never for a long time and regularly along its entire length until its official closure in 1852 worked). Since 1930, Tschuraptscha has been the administrative seat of the Ulus ( Rajons ) named after him in its current form.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 1657 |
1959 | 2826 |
1970 | 4557 |
1979 | 5210 |
1989 | 6232 |
2002 | 7526 |
2002 | 8769 |
Note: census data
traffic
Churaptscha is on the R504 Kolyma trunk road , which connects Nizhny Bestjach near Yakutsk with Magadan (previously M56 , number still in use until 2017), on its westernmost section to Chandyga am Aldan.
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)