Krasny Chikoy (russian: Кра́сный Чико́й) is a
rural locality (a ''
selo'') and the
administrative center of
Krasnochikoysky District of
Zabaykalsky Krai,
Russia. Population:
Geography
The village is about 380 km southeast of the regional capital
Chita. It is on the right bank of the
Chikoy River with the
Khentei-Daur Highlands to the south.
[Krasny Chikoy]
in the ''Enzyklopädie Transbaikaliens'' (Russian)
History
Krasny Chikoy was founded in 1670 by explorers. The first exiled
Old Believers
Old Believers or Old Ritualists, ''starovery'' or ''staroobryadtsy'' are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow bet ...
, engaged in land tenure, harvesting pine nuts, burning lime, tar, and hunting moved to the village in 1754. In 1902, there was a parochial school, post office, telegraph, district doctor and paramedic, chamber of the magistrate, distillery and oil-refinery. In 1933, it became the administrative center of the district. An airport operated in Krasny Chikoy until the 1990s.
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Climate
References
Rural localities in Zabaykalsky Krai
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