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15-520: It lies of the shore of the River Kalga (RUSSIA). It is located 581 km from Chita . In the village there is a district hospital, a pharmacy, a boarding school, an evening school, a creamery, a state bank, and a bookstore. Kalga was founded in 1777 by exiled members of the Pugachev uprising. Cossacks were settled here beginning in 1851. In September 1908 the 1st Transbaikal battery was deployed in

30-420: A geological nature monument of international status. Chita is served by Kadala Airport , situated 15 km to the west. Chita is home to several facilities of higher education: Chita Northwest air base is located nearby, as well as the 101st (Hub) Communications Brigade and the 53rd Material Support Regiment. FC Chita is Chita's association football club. An indoor arena for speed skating

45-578: Is a city and the administrative center of Zabaykalsky Krai , Russia , located on the Trans-Siberian Railway route, roughly 900 kilometers (560 mi) east of Irkutsk . Population: 334,427 ( 2021 Census ) ; 324,444 ( 2010 Census ) ; Pyotr Beketov 's Cossacks founded Chita in 1653. The name of the settlement came from the local River Chita . Following the Decembrist revolt of 1825, from 1827 several of

60-550: Is incorporated as Chita Urban Okrug. The city is subdivided into four administrative districts: Chernovsky (named after the Chernovskiye coal mines and colloquially known as "Chernovskiye" ), Ingodinsky (named after the Ingoda River ), Tsentralny , and Zheleznodorozhny . Chernovsky Administrative District used to be a mining settlement, which was incorporated into Chita in 1941. Chernovskiye mines themselves are

75-497: Is planned. Chita is twinned with: Ivan-Arakhley Lake System Ivan-Arakhley Lake System ( Russian : Ивано-Арахлейские озёра ) is a group of fresh water bodies in the Chita District , Zabaykalsky Krai , Russia . The villages of Arakhley , Tasei and Preobrazhenka are located near the lakes. The lakes are a tourist attraction and there are holiday cottages and resorts near them. They are located within

90-475: The Beklemishev Depression . "Chita Lakes" ( Russian : Чити́нские озёра ) is another alternative name, because the lakes lie very close to Chita , about 50 km (31 mi) to the west of the city. The lake system includes 6 large lakes with a water surface of more than 10 km (3.9 sq mi): Arakhley , Shaksha , Irgen , Ivan , Tasei and Bolshoy Undugun . Arakhley is

105-780: The Chita Republic . Tsarist government forces took control again in January 1906. The Bolsheviks took power in Chita in February 1918. The Imperial Japanese Army occupied Chita from September 1918 to 1920 in the course of the Siberian intervention . On behalf of the White movement , Ataman Grigory Semyonov 's Eastern Okraina ruled from Chita for some few months in early 1920 with Japanese support. From October 1920 to November 1922

120-542: 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 wooden town, with one church, also wooden. He estimated Chita's population at under 1,000, but predicted that

135-585: The Ivano-Arakhley State Natural Landscape Reserve ( Zakaznik ), a protected area of regional significance created in 1995, covering an area of 210,000 ha (520,000 acres). The lakes lie at the southeastern end of the Vitim Plateau . As a group, they are also known as "Beklemishev Lakes" ( Russian : Беклеми́шевские озёра ) since they stretch roughly from SW to NE for about 80 km (50 mi) along

150-774: The city served as the capital of the Far Eastern Republic , which became part of the RSFSR in November 1922. In 1945, the Soviet authorities held Puyi , who had reigned (1908–1912, 1917) as the last Emperor of China , and some of his associates as prisoners in the city, in a former sanatorium for officers. Chita lies at the confluence of the Chita and Ingoda Rivers , between the Yablonoi Mountains to

165-606: The city would soon experience fast growth, due to the upcoming annexation of the Amur valley by Russia. By 1885, Chita's population had reached 5,728, and by 1897 it increased to 11,500. In 1897 the Trans-Siberian Railway reached Chita; rail traffic from 1899 rapidly made Chita the transport hub and industrial centre of the Transbaikal . During the Russian Revolution of 1905 , revolutionary socialists declared

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180-557: The largest of the group and is also the one having the greatest depth. The system includes 20 smaller lakes with surface areas of roughly 1 km (0.39 sq mi) or less. Lakes Ivan and Tasei belong to the Lena basin. Arakhley, Shaksha, Bolshoy Undugun and Irgen are separated from them by a slight elevation and belong to the Baikal basin through the Khilok river, a tributary of

195-474: The southerly latitude, it closely resembles the climate of Fairbanks, Alaska . Chita is the administrative center of Zabaykalsky Krai , and, within the framework of administrative divisions , it also serves as the administrative center of Chitinsky District , to which it is also subordinated. As a municipal division , the city of Chita together with one rural locality in Chitinsky District

210-481: The village. In the 1920s, most of the peasant households united in collective farms, but by the summer of 1930 the farms had disintegrated and kolkhas were formed. In 1942, it became the administrative center of the district. An asphalt plant was formed in 1987. Population: 3,425 ( 2010 Census ) ; 3,735 ( 2002 Census ) ; 4,412 ( 1989 Soviet census ) . Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai Chita ( Russian : Чита , IPA: [tɕɪˈta] )

225-567: 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 50 km (31 mi) west of Chita. Chita experiences a dry-winter borderline humid continental climate / subarctic climate ( Köppen climate classification : Dwb/Dwc ) with very cold, very dry winters and warm, relatively wet summers. Despite

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