Tchita

Tchita (in Russian: Чита) is a town of Russia, the capital of the Oblast de Tchita, located at the south-east of the Siberia. It is with the junction of the rivers Tchita and Ingoda, on the line of the Transsibérien, with approximately 800 kilometers in the east of Irkoutsk. Its population is of 305.492 inhabitants.

History

The site of Tchita was populated for the first time in 1653 by the Cosaque Piotr Beketov but the city grew in the shade of its neighbor Nertchinsk, and this until the 20th century. After the coup d'etat lacked 1825, many decembrists was exiled in Tchita, from where its nickname of “city of exiled”. Much of them was intellectuals and members of the middle-class, their arrival thus had a positive effect on the city. They took part in the education of the inhabitants of the city and developed the trade to with it. Tchita thus quickly became an important commercial city of Siberia in particular concerning resources such as the wood, the Or then the Uranium. Tchita received the statute of city in 1851.

Perhaps because of the influence of its exiled revolutionary, Tchita became an important place of revolts of the workers at the beginning of the 20th century, in particular after Georgi Gapone and its workers was massacred with Saint Petersbourg in 1906. Many demonstrations thus took place in the city until the seizure of power by the revolutionists who declared the “République of Tchita”. After the sending of troops by the Tsar, the revolt was repressed hard and the new government set up demolishes.

Of 1920 with 1922, Tchita was the capital of the Far-Eastern République. Of 1930 to the collapse of Communism, Tchita was a closed Ville. During this period, it was interdict the abroads to enter the city, just as for many Russians without a specific work permit. The justification of the closing of the city seeming to be its strong proximity with the China. During the Second world war, many prisoners Japanese were brought in the city and worked mainly in the construction industry. Thus, today still, one finds in Tchita of many buildings with a style very different from that of the other buildings and sometimes being able to point out those which one finds in Japan.

See too

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Official site of Tchita
Article on Tchita town of exile
Photographs on the site of division of photographs SmugMug
Striking facts of Tchita since 2002
Tchita on Google Maps
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