Tupik (Transbaikalia)

Village Tupik Тупик Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Tungiro-Oljokminsky population 971 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 630  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30263 Post Code 673820 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 242 000 001 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 26 '  N , 119 ° 56'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 25 '30 "  N , 119 ° 56' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

Tupik ( Russian Тупи́к ) is a village (selo) in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 971 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 500 km as the crow flies northeast of the regional capital Chita at the mouth of the Bugarikta in the right Oljokma tributary Tungir . The Tungir flows through a wide, swampy valley between some smaller ridges in the south and the Tungir ridge (Tungirski chrebet) in the northwest, which together are part of the low mountain range Oljokminski Stanowik .

Tupik is the administrative center of the Rajons Tungiro-Oljokminski and seat and only town in the rural community Tupikskoje selskoje posselenije. Although the village is by far the smallest Rajon center in the region, around two thirds of the inhabitants of the extremely sparsely populated Rajon live there: the only four other villages in the 43,800 km² area (slightly smaller than Lower Saxony ) together have fewer than 500 inhabitants.

history

The village goes back to the construction of a road from 1911, which was to connect the former station and today's small town of Mogotscha on the Amur Railway (from 1916 continuously Kuenga  - Khabarovsk ) with the river Tungir; from there goods were to be transported to and from Yakutsk by water via Olyokma and Lena . After the construction of the road was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, it was completed by prisoners of war between 1916 and 1918. The place at the end point was given the name Tupik, Russian for dead end , and under this name the official status of a village in the 1920s.

Tupik has been the administrative seat of a Rajon since 1938. In 1966 the village was relocated to a slightly higher, less flood-prone place not far from the original location.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1647
1959	826
1970	913
1979	1001
1989	1069
2002	1041
2010	971

Note: census data

traffic

Tupik is the end point of the 96 km long regional road 76K-019 from Mogotscha, which is on the Trans-Siberian Railway and not far from the federal highway R297 Amur from Chita to Khabarovsk.

Until the 1980s, a 400 km long winter road led from Tupik to the towns of Naminga (which no longer exists today) and Tschara in the north of the region. Since this area has been connected to the Baikal Amur Mainline (BAM), the winter road is no longer maintained.

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)
2. ↑ Tupik in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)