Chany

Chany (Russian Чаны ) is an urban-type settlement in the Novosibirsk Oblast (Russia) with 8473 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

Chany is located in the southeastern part of the West Siberian Plain, the Barabasteppe, about 400 km west of the Oblasthauptstadt Novosibirsk and 50 km north of the endorheic Tschanysees, which gave the place its name.

The settlement Chany is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

By Chany the Trans-Siberian railway runs ( route kilometers in 2932 from Moscow).

History

Chany was created in 1875 as a hamlet Nowopokrowskaja saimka ( Новопокровская заимка ), near which the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1890, the station Chany was built and in 1892 a village of the same name originated. 1924, the place was Rajonverwaltungszentrum. 1947, the status of an urban-type settlement was awarded.

Demographics

Note: Census data