Novaya Chara
Novaya Chara (Russian: Новая Чара ) is an urban-type settlement in the region, Transbaikalia (Russia) with 4315 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The settlement is located in the Upper Tscharasenke which is enclosed by the Udokangebirge in the northwest of Kodargebirge and in the southeast, two up to 3000 meters high mountain ranges in the eastern part of the Stanowoihochlandes. Novaya Chara is located about 600 kilometers (direct distance ) north-east of the regional capital of Chita near the right bank of the river Chara.
The settlement is part of Rajon Kalarski whose administrative center, the village Chara, about 10 km ( 16 km by road ) is located to the north.
The Chara Sands, a " desert " in the middle of Siberia, near Novaya Chara. In the background the Kodargebirge
History
The village was founded in the early 1980s named after the river near the old village Tschara in connection with the construction of the Baikal - Amur Mainline (BAM ). The place name is accordingly for new Tschara. Station and settlement were built by construction workers from the former Kazakh SSR (in the framework of propaganda to the All-Union Komsomol construction project BAM one or more regions of the former Soviet Union have sponsored more than most to be erected stations and settlements along the route).
The regular train traffic on the entire section of Tynda in the neighboring Amur Oblast to Novaya Chara ( from the east ) in 1988, between Lake Baikal ( Sewerobaikalsk ) and Novaya Chara ( from the west ) was added in 1989. After completion of the railway, as well as due to the economic crisis in the 1990s left more than half of the inhabitants of the place where companies are not fulfilled the conditions attached to the construction of the railway line expectations for the economic development of the area.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Culture and sights
Novaya Chara is the starting point for trekking in the nearby Kodargebirge, one of the highest and thanks to BAM today the most accessible high mountains of Siberia outside of the South Siberian mountains, and the Chara Sands ( Tscharskije peski ), a 37 km ² large sand dune area north- west of the town beyond the Chara.
Economy and infrastructure
Novaya Chara is a major station of the Baikal - Amur Mainline ( 1719 line kilometers from Taischet ), which practically represents the only economic factor of the place. The route crosses six kilometers west of the settlement on a 276 -meter-long bridge, the Chara.
However, the place has significant potential as a logistical center of a developing mining area. Intermediate station and a Tscharabrücke between August 1998 and September 2001 elaborately built, 66 -kilometer-long railway line branches ( 72 km from Novaya Chara ) from south-west to the titanium - vanadium - iron ore deposit Tschineiskoje ( Tschina ). It is the largest titanium reserves of Russia, and - in a vanadium pentoxide (V2O5 ) of up to 1.2 percent - the largest by total inventories explored vanadium deposit in the world, as by-products of nickel, cobalt, platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, silver and contains gold. Since the degradation of lying in 2000 meters altitude ore body was initially not included because of unclear ownership and funding, it came on the non -maintained because of this route to damage caused by landslides and washouts, so that they (2008) is traveled only 26 kilometers today. Until the local loading point the previously mined in small quantities ore is transported by trucks. The restoration of the whole route and its extension up to 13 km distant copper deposit Udokanskoje ( with estimated reserves of 20 million tons also one of the world's biggest ) is configured. In the catchment area of the track are also deposits of rare earth metals ( Katuginskoje ), iron ores ( Sulumatskoje ) and high-quality coal ( Tschitkandinskoje, also Tschitkanda ), so far as the Udokanskoje are but undeveloped.
By Novaya Chara the BAM does the following road. The settlement has a small airport.