Kurumkan

Kurumkan (Russian Курумкан; Buryat Хурамхаан, Churamchaan ) is a village ( selo ) in the Republic of Buryatia (Russia) with 5465 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village is located about 330 km as the crow northeast of the Republic capital of Ulan -Ude and a good 50 km from the eastern shore of Baikal lake. It is located on the right bank of Baikal tributary Bargusin. Directly west rises between Kurumkan and Lake Baikal, the Bargusingebirge that reached its greatest height in the range of almost 2700 m. To the east rises beyond the nearly 30 miles wide there Bargusintales the Ikat Mountains on also over 2000 m at.

Kurumkan is the administrative seat of the Rajons Kurumkanski and seat of the rural community Selskoje posselenije Kurumkan to the next Kurumkan nor the villages Murgun, Tomokto and Unegetei belong.

History

Kurumkan in 1944 for the first time the center of a newly created Rajons. 1959 Rajon was temporarily re-integrated into the southern neighbor Bargusinski rayon, but restored in 1970.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Traffic

Kurumkan is the end point of the regional road R438, which reaches from Ulan -Ude coming in Gremyachinsk about Turuntajewo Lake Baikal, and continue along the east bank of the lake and from Ust- Bargusin on the southwest adjacent, 90 km away Rajonzentrum Bargusin the right bank of Bargusin extends upwardly. From Kurumkan she continues as Rajonstraße to the village Uljunchan and the hot mineral springs at Kutscheger and Umchei in the northern part of the area, and from there on and as dirt and heavy vehicle traffic, primarily in the frost period usable only by off-road vehicles route through the hill country between Bargusingebirge northern Muja mountains into the valley of the Upper Angara, where it reaches the Baikal - Amur Mainline (BAM ) and their following road at Nowy Uojan. The road was laid during the railway construction 1974/1975, but is no longer maintained in the 1980s, since its completion. The extension to an all-weather road is scheduled, leading then to the northern part of the Republic of the capital Ulan -Ude from without going through the Irkutsk Oblast to the west of Lake Baikal would be achievable.

Kurumkan has a small airport ( ICAO code UI69 ).