Nizhneangarsk
| town, district center
Russia /
Burjatija /
Nizhneangarsk /
World
/ Russia
/ Burjatija
/ Nizhneangarsk
, 3 km from center (Нижнеангарск)
World / Russia / Buryat
town, district center
Nizhneangarsk (Russian: Нижнеанга́рск; Russian Buryat: Доодо Ангар, Doodo Angar; Mongolian: Доод Ангар, Dood Angar) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Severo-Baykalsky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located at the northern tip of Lake Baikal, 23 kilometers (14 mi) north of Severobaykalsk. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 5,030.
It was founded in 1643 by the Russian explorer Semyon Skorokhod and was originally called Verkhneangarsk (Верхнеанга́рск), after the fort built here by Vasily Kolesnik in 1646. In the 1970s, it was planned to make Nizhneangarsk the headquarters of the western end of the Baikal–Amur Mainline, but the marshy ground made it hard to build large buildings, so the headquarters were moved south to Severobaykalsk.
It was founded in 1643 by the Russian explorer Semyon Skorokhod and was originally called Verkhneangarsk (Верхнеанга́рск), after the fort built here by Vasily Kolesnik in 1646. In the 1970s, it was planned to make Nizhneangarsk the headquarters of the western end of the Baikal–Amur Mainline, but the marshy ground made it hard to build large buildings, so the headquarters were moved south to Severobaykalsk.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizhneangarsk
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 55°47'38"N 109°34'46"E
- Novaya Igirma 383 km
- Chunsky 622 km
- Nizhnyaya Poyma 774 km
- Nizhny Ingash 815 km
- Motygino 943 km
- Bolshaya Murta 1021 km
- Beryozovka 1028 km
- Strelka 1037 km
- Yemelyanovo 1055 km
- Severo-Yeniseysky 1098 km
- Airport Nizhneangarsk 1.3 km