Kalga (russian: Калга) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the

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Kalgansky District Kalgansky District (russian: Калганский район) is an administrativeRegistry of the Administrative-Territorial Units and the Inhabited Localities and municipalLaw #316-ZZK district (raion), one of the thirty-one in Zabaykalsky Krai, ...

of Zabaykalsky Krai,

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Geography

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
in the ''Enzyklopädie Transbaikaliens'' (Russian)

History

Kalga was founded in 1777 by exiled members of the Pugachev uprising.

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were settled here beginning in 1851. In September 1908 the 1st Transbaikal battery was deployed in 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.

Demographics

Population:

References

{{Authority control Rural localities in Zabaykalsky Krai 1777 establishments in the Russian Empire