Vershino-Darasunski

Urban-type settlement Werschino-Darassunski Вершино-Дарасунский coat of arms Federal district far East region Transbaikalia Rajon Tungokochensky Founded 1865 Earlier names Darassun (until 1954) Urban-type settlement since 1932 population 5946 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 900  m Time zone UTC + 9 Telephone code (+7) 30264 Post Code 674125 License Plate 75, 80 OKATO 76 244 554 Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 22 '  N , 115 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '0 "  N , 115 ° 32' 15"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Transbaikalia region

Vershino -Darassunski ( Russian Верши́но-Дарасу́нский ) is an urban-type settlement in the Transbaikalia region in Russia with 5946 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Gold mine in Vershino-Darasunski

The place is a good 140 km as the crow flies east-northeast of the regional capital Chita in the Nertscha-Kuenga mountains on the upper reaches of the Darassun river in the river system of the Amur source river Schilka .

Vershino-Darassunski belongs to the Tungokotschensky Rajon and is located a good 40 km southeast of its administrative center Verkh-Ussugli . The settlement is the seat of the municipality Vershino-Darasunskoje gorodskoje posselenije, to which the settlement Svetly (10 km northwest) also belongs.

history

The settlement was founded in 1865 near the Usur-Malachai gold deposit, which was discovered in 1861, and was initially named Darassun after the river . In 1911, underground mining began at another deposit discovered in 1883 . In connection with the expansion of the mine from the second half of the 1920s, the place received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1932. Until 1953 there was also a prison camp in the Gulag system .

Since another place in what was then Chita Oblast bore the name Darassun from 1950 , the settlement was renamed Vershino-Darassunski in 1954 (the Russian word Vershina, literally "summit", here denotes the upper reaches of a river).

Population development

year	Residents
1939	17,971
1959	11,867
1970	11,407
1979	10,799
1989	10,384
2002	6,743
2010	5,946

Note: census data

traffic

There is a road connection from Vershino-Darasunski to the M58 trunk road (Chita - Khabarovsk ) , which passes around 50 km to the south, and further to Shilka on the Trans-Siberian Railway . To the north, the road from Vershino-Darassunski continues to the district center of Werch-Ussugli and the towns on the central reaches of the Nertscha .

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. ↑ Vershino-Darassunski in the Encyclopedia of Transbaikaliens (Russian)
3. ^ Warehouse department Werschina Darassuna on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.

Web links

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