Aginskoye, Zabaykalsky Krai

Aga (Russian Агинское, Buryat Ага һуурин / Aga ḥuurin ) is an urban-type settlement in the region, the Trans-Baikal (Russia) with 15,596 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is situated in Transbaikalia, in the south of the Mogoituigebirges extending Aginer Steppe ( Aga steppe ), about 150 kilometers south-east of the regional capital of Chita. Through the village the Aga, a left tributary of the Onon flows in the river system of the Amur.

Aga is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Aga.

History

The story of Aga begins 1781, when settled semi-nomadic Buryats living here. The actual local establishment with the construction of fixed building was 1811. The name is derived from the name of the river Aga.

With the establishment of the Autonomous Okrug of Aginer Buryats on 26 September 1937, the site for its administrative center, with the division of the circle into three Rajons 1941 was also the administrative center of one of them.

In 1959, the status of an urban-type settlement was awarded.

Since the dissolution of the Autonomous Okrug on 1 March 2008 Aga is only normal Rajonverwaltungszentrum the Trans-Baikal region.

Demographics

Note: from 1959 census data

Culture and sights

Aga is the cultural center of the southeastern Transbaikal Buryats. In the village there is a Historical and Folk Museum, a nature museum and the Museum of Popular Education Aginsker circle.

Seven kilometers southwest, in the village Amitchascha, is the Aginer Dazan, the main Buddhist monastery of Aginer Buryats.

Economy and infrastructure

In Aga, there are companies in the construction industry and the food industry.

The nearest train station is in Mogoitui about 35 kilometers away on the Trans-Siberian branch line of Karymskaja after Zabaikalsk and the Chinese border.

Through the settlement leads the A166 trunk road which connects Chita also with Zabaikalsk.