Ulkan (place)

Urban-type settlement ulkan Улькан Federal district Siberia Oblast Irkutsk Rajon Kazachinsko-Lensky Founded 1974 Urban-type settlement since 1976 population 5412 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 410  m Time zone UTC + 8 Telephone code (+7) 39562 Post Code 666534-666535 License Plate 38, 85, 138 OKATO 25 214 558 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 54 '  N , 107 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 54 '0 "  N , 107 ° 48' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Irkutsk Oblast

Ulkan ( Russian Улькан ) is an urban-type settlement in Irkutsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 5412 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located on the eastern edge of the Lena-Angara plateau , between Lena and Lake Baikal, about 430 kilometers (as the crow flies) northeast of the oblast capital, Irkutsk . It is not far from the confluence of the major right tributary Ulkan in the Lena tributary Kirenga .

Ulkan belongs to Rayon Kasatschinsko-Lenski , the management center Kasatschinskoje located about 50 kilometers north. The settlement Umbella, a good 15 kilometers to the east, at the railway station of the same name, is part of Ulkan and is named after a right tributary of the Ulkan that flows there.

history

The place arose from 1974 near the old settlement Juchta in connection with the construction of the Baikal-Amur-Magistrale (BAM), which leaves the valley of the Kirenga in an easterly direction. The railway station and settlement were built by construction workers from the Azerbaijani SSR at the time (as part of the propaganda for the all-union Komsomol building project, BAM, one or more regions of the former Soviet Union sponsored most of the stations and settlements to be built along the route).

In 1976 urban-type settlement status was given. Regular rail traffic on the entire section between Lena and Lake Baikal ( Severobaikalsk ) was excluded in 1981. The settlement grew rapidly at first; after the completion of the railway line and with its temporary decline as a result of the economic crisis from the end of the 1980s, however, the population decreased significantly.

Population development

year	Residents
1979	4196
1989	9152
2002	5853
2010	5412

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

There are forestry companies in Ulkan.

Here is a station of the Baikal-Amur main line (930 km from Taischet ). The unpaved road that follows the railway leads through the village.

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 of State Statistics of the Russian Federation); Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 g. po Irkutskoj oblasti (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for Irkutsk Oblast). on-line