Ust-Karsk

Urban-type settlement Ust-Karsk Усть-Карск Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Sretenski Founded 1838 Earlier names Karijskije promysli Ust-Kara Urban-type settlement since 1934 population 1899 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 420  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30246 Post Code 673562 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 240 556 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 42 ′  N , 118 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 42 ′ 15 "  N , 118 ° 48 ′ 30"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

Ust-Karsk ( Russian Усть-Карск ) is an urban-type settlement in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 1899 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 370 km as the crow flies east of the regional capital Chita on the left bank of the Schilka , immediately above the confluence of the left tributary Kara, on the southeast flank of the Schilka ridge (Schilkinski chrebet).

Ust-Karsk belongs to the Sretensky Raion and is located 90 km northeast of its administrative center Sretensk . It is the seat and only locality of the municipality Ust-Karskoje gorodskoje posselenije.

history

The settlement was established in 1838 in connection with the discovery of gold and soap deposits on rivers in the area, especially the Kara, and was initially called Karijskije promysli (about "Kara mining company"). Later it was given the name Ust-Kara, before the current name became established, both meaning "Kara estuary".

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  Katorga prison in Ust-Kara (1891)

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  Katorga hospital Nizhnyaya Kara, in the background gold soaps (before 1900)

Katorga prisoners, who were held in several prisons over 20 km along the Kara , were mainly used for gold mining ; between 1873 and 1890 also political prisoners, including the Narodniki and Narodowolzen Sergei Kowalik, Jelisaweta Kowalskaja, Alexei Kuznetsov, Ippolit Myshkin, Dmitri Rogachev, Porfiri Woinoralsky, the poet Pyotr Jakubowitsch and the worker revolutionaries Pyotr Jakubowitsch as well as the worker revolutionaries Pyotrktorejew . In protest against prison conditions committed on November 7, 1889 after a hunger strike , the female political prisoners Marija Kaljuschnaja, Maria Kovalevskaya, Nadezhda Sigida and Nadezhda Smirnizkaja (Kaljuschnaja) suicide two male detainees in solidarity, a few days later. These events came to be known as the Karat Tragedy .

Since 1934 the place has had the status of an urban-type settlement. From 1926 to 1959 it was the administrative seat of an independent Rajon.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	4841
1959	3965
1970	3141
1979	2654
1989	2541
2002	2035
2010	1899

Note: census data

traffic

Ust-Karsk is the end point of the 103 km long local road 76N-114 from Sretensk, where the nearest railway station is located. An unpaved road leads about 30 km downstream through the villages on the left bank of the Shilka to Ust-Chornaya at the confluence of the Chornaya , another up the Kara and over the Schilka ridge to the R297 Amur highway from Chita to Chabarowsk, about 70 km away .

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. ↑ Ust-Karsk in the Encyclopedia Transbaikaliens (Russian)