Raychikhinsk
Raychikhinsk (Template:Langx) is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia, located in the Zeya–Bureya basin, about Script error: No such module "convert". from the Amur River and the border with China, and about Script error: No such module "convert". east of Blagoveshchensk, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: Template:Ru-census2010 Template:Replace (2002 Census);[1] Template:Replace (1989 Soviet census).[2]
History
The town is located near a brown coal deposit which had been known of since the late 1800s. Mining began in 1913, with the foundation of the first permanent settlement in 1932, named Raychikha (Script error: No such module "Lang".) after a local stream.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
From 1938 until 1942, Raychikha was host to a prison camp of the gulag system, where up to 11,000 prisoners were kept for forced labor in the mining of coal.[3]
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Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with three rural localities, incorporated as Raychikhinsk Urban Okrug—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[4] As a municipal division, this administrative unit also has urban okrug status.[5]
Economy
Brown coal mining remains the main economic focus of the town; two open-pit mines surround the town almost completely. The city's largest enterprise is JSC Amursky Coal (Severo-Vostochny and Yerkovetsky open-pit mines, Kontaktovy plot).
Transportation
The town is terminus for a Script error: No such module "convert". branch line, which connects to the Trans-Siberian Railway at Bureya.
References
Notes
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Sources
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