Ust-Ordynsky
Ust- Ordynski (Russian Усть - Ордынский; Buryat Усть-Орда/Ust-Orda ) is a settlement ( possjolok ) in the South Siberian Irkutsk Oblast (Russia) with 14,891 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The place is located in the mountainous southern Siberia, about 60 kilometers north of the Irkutsk Oblasthauptstadt at Kuda river, a right tributary of the Angara. From 90 km southeast to Lake Baikal it is separated by the Primorsky Mountains.
Ust- Ordynski is the administrative center of the Rajons Echirit - Bulagatski.
History
In place of today's Ust- Ordynski there was the old Buryat village Khuzhir. Since the beginning of the 19th century there was also a post office station ( unofficially known as the Swedes, the Russian word for Swede, after a prisoner of war from the (presumably ) Russian - Swedish War 1808-1809, is said to have operated the post office ).
On September 26, 1937, the Autonomous District of Ust- Ordynsker Buryat (initially ... Buryat - Mongols ) was founded. The place was in Ust- Ordynski renamed (ie Ordynka estuary, after here in the Kuda which opens Bach Ordynka, also Orduschka ) and its administrative center made , having already since 1922 the center of the Aimaks Echirit - Bulagat the Buryat Mongolian Autonomous Oblast ( 1923 Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, ASSR ) was.
1941, the status of an urban-type settlement was awarded to the place again in 1992 and since then has lost rural settlement.
On 1 January 2008 the Autonomous District lost as a result of the referendum held on April 16, 2006 its status as an independent administrative entity of the Russian Federation, and Ust- Ordynski has since simple Rajonverwaltungszentrum in the Irkutsk Oblast.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Culture and sights
In Ust- Ordynski there is a local history museum, which is dedicated mainly culture and history of Ordynsker Buryats.
Economy and infrastructure
Ust- Ordynski is the center of an agricultural region. There are companies in the food industry and forestry.
Through the town, the regional road R418 from Irkutsk leads to Katschug on the upper reaches of the Lena.