Dauriya () is a

settlement Settlement may refer to: *Human settlement, a community where people live *Settlement (structural), downward movement of a structure's foundation *Settlement (finance), where securities are delivered against payment of money *Settlement (litigatio ...

Zabaykalsky District Zabaykalsky District () 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, Russia. It is located in the southeast ...

Zabaykalsky Krai Zabaykalsky Krai is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the Russian Far East. Its administrative center is Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, Chita. As of the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census, the population was ...

in Russia, the administrative center of the Daursky Rural Settlement.

History

Dauriya was originally founded in 1900 as a rail siding on the

Trans-Baikal Railway The Transbaikal Railway (Забайкальская железная дорога) is a subsidiary of the Russian Railways headquartered in Chita and serving Zabaykalsky Krai and Amur Oblast. The mainline was built between 1895 and 1905 as part of ...

, to which a settlement was attached in 1909. It was the location of the 1st Argun Regiment and 1st Transbaikal Cossack Battery of the 1st Separate Transbaikal Cossack Brigade of the Transbaikal Cossack Host until the

Russian Civil War The Russian Civil War () was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the 1917 overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. I ...

Transport

Dauriya is the location of a station on the Trans-Baikal Railway, and is southwest of

Zabaykalsk Zabaykalsk () is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Zabaykalsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located on the Sino-Russian border just opposite the Chinese border town of Manzhouli. Population ...

, the nearest inhabited location.

Demographics

According to the Russian Census of 2010, Dauriya had 3,850 inhabitants. According to the

Russian Census of 2002 The 2002 Russian census () was the first census of the Russian Federation since the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, dissolution of the Soviet Union, carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat, Russian ...

, it had 4,242 inhabitants.

References

{{Authority control Rural localities in Zabaykalsky Krai