Zabaykalsk

Zabaikalsk (Russian Забайкальск ) is an urban-type settlement in the region, the Trans-Baikal (Russia) with 11,769 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is located in the arid steppe of southern Dauriens, some 400 kilometers south-east of the regional capital of Chita, near the border with the People's Republic of China. Across the border is located about ten kilometers southeast of the city Manjur.

The settlement Zabaikalsk since 1967 administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Zabaikalsk.

History

Its history began with the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway, part of the original route of the Trans -Siberian Railway in 1897, it set the passing point number was 86 ( Rasjesd No. 86) constructed as the last station on the territory of the Russian Empire, to a small settlement was established. The operation on this section was taken on October 25, 1901; as the founding year of the town shall 1904 ( according to other sources in 1900 ).

1929 received station location and the name of Otpor, the Russian word for defense, resistance. 1954, the status of an urban-type settlement was awarded. It got its current name in 1960, derived from Russian Sabaikalje for Transbaikalia.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

Zabaikalsk is the border station on the former Chinese Eastern Railway, now the route Karymskaja - Zabaikalsk the Trans-Baikal Railway ( Regional Administration of the Russian state railway ). It is located at kilometer 6658 from Moscow, just before the border with China and about ten kilometers from the first Chinese station Manjur away ( earlier form of Manzhouli, Russian, and a range of opening up in the 1930s officially Маньчжурия / Mantschschurija, for Manchuria ).

The A166 trunk road from Chita, part of the Asian Highway AH6, here crossed the border. The road border crossing has been greatly expanded newly built in 1998 and is today one of the largest in Russia.

Border traffic and associated trade are the main economic factors. About 60 percent of the transported by land between Russia and the People 's Republic of China goods cross the border at Zabaikalsk. In addition, there are companies in the food industry.