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Arakhley
Arakhley (russian: Арахлей) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in Chitinsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, located on the southwest bank of Arakhley Lake, from Chita. Population: 306 (2002). There are many tourist attractions nearby. A monument to the residents of Arakhley who died in Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Poland and other Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltics), and Sout ... is located in the village. References * ''The Encyclopedia of Trans-Baykal''.Entry on Arakhley {{Authority control Rural localities in Zabaykalsky Krai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arakhley (lake)
Arakhley (russian: Арахле́й; bua, Арахира нуур) is a fresh water body in the Chita District, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. It is the 208th lake in Russia in water surface. The villages of Arakhley and Preobrazhenka are located near the lakeshore. Arakhley is a locally well-known tourist destination and there are a number of resorts by the lake. Lake Arakhley is located within the Ivano-Arakhley State Natural Landscape Reserve, a protected area of regional significance created in 1995, covering an area of . Geography Arakhley lake has a roughly oval shape. It is located in the Beklemishev Depression, at the southeastern end of the Vitim Plateau, west of Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai and lake Kenon. It is separated from neighboring Lake Shaksha by a low, wide landspit. It is part of the Ivan-Arakhley Lake System (russian: Ивано-Арахлейские озёра), which includes 6 large lakes and about 20 smaller ones. Arakhley is the largest of the group and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitinsky District
Chitinsky District (russian: Чити́нский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-one in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia.Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities It is located in the west of the krai, and borders with Karymsky District in the east, Duldurginsky District in the south, and with Khiloksky District in the west. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the city of Chita. Population (excluding the administrative center): 62,221 ( 2002 Census); History The district was established on September 26, 1937. Geography The Yablonoi Mountains and the Chersky Range stretch from NE to SW across the district, one west and the other east of the city of Chita. The mountains are smooth and of moderate height. They are mainly covered by larch taiga. The Arakhley Lake is located west of Chita. Google Earth Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zabaykalsky Krai
Zabaykalsky Krai ( rus, Забайкальский край, r=Zabaikal'skii krai, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲskʲɪj kraj, lit. " Transbaikal krai"; bua, Yбэр Байгалай хизаар, Uber Baigalai Xizaar) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai) that was created on March 1, 2008 as a result of a merger of Chita Oblast and Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug, after a referendum held on the issue on March 11, 2007. The Krai is now part of the Russian Far East as of November 2018 in accordance with a decree issued by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The administrative center of the krai is located in the city of Chita. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 1,107,107. Geography The krai is located within the historical region of Transbaikalia (Dauria) and has extensive international borders with China ( Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang) (998 km) and Mongolia ( Dornod Province, Khentii Province and Selenge Province) (868 km); its internal borders are with I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai
Chita ( rus, Чита, p=tɕɪˈta, , ) is a city and the administrative center of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian Railway route, roughly east of Irkutsk. Geography Chita lies at the confluence of the Chita and Ingoda Rivers, between the Yablonoi Mountains to the west and the Chersky Range to the east. Lake Kenon is located to the west, within the city limits, and the Ivan-Arakhley Lake System is a group of lakes lying about west of Chita. Google Earth History Pyotr Beketov's Cossacks founded Chita in 1653. The name of the settlement apparently came from the local River Chita. Following the Decembrist revolt of 1825, from 1827 several of the Decembrists suffered exile to Chita. According to George Kennan, who visited the area in the 1880s, "Among the exiles in Chita were some of the brightest, most cultivated, most sympathetic men and women that we had met in Eastern Siberia." When Richard Maack visited the city in 1855, he saw a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Types Of Inhabited Localities In Russia
The classification system of human settlement, inhabited localities in Russia and some other post-Soviet Union, Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with those in other countries. Classes During the Soviet Union, Soviet time, each of the republics of the Soviet Union, including the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, had its own legislative documents dealing with classification of inhabited localities. After the history of the Soviet Union (1985-1991), dissolution of the Soviet Union, the task of developing and maintaining such classification in Russia was delegated to the federal subjects of Russia, federal subjects.Articles 71 and 72 of the Constitution of Russia do not name issues of the administrative and territorial structure among the tasks handled on the federal level or jointly with the governments of the federal subjects. As such, all federal subjects pass :Subtemplates of Template RussiaAdmMunRef, their own laws establishing the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Though villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture, and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Patriotic War
The Eastern Front of World War II was a Theater (warfare), theatre of conflict between the European Axis powers against the Soviet Union (USSR), Polish Armed Forces in the East, Poland and other Allies of World War II, Allies, which encompassed Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Northeast Europe (Baltic states, Baltics), and Southeast Europe (Balkans) from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945. It was known as the Great Patriotic War (term), Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union – and still is in some of its successor states, while almost everywhere else it has been called the ''Eastern Front''. In present-day German and Ukrainian historiography the name German-Soviet War is typically used. The battles on the Eastern Front of the Second World War constituted the largest military confrontation in history. They were characterised by unprecedented ferocity and brutality, wholesale destruction, mass deportations, and immense loss of life due to combat, starvation, expos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
