Novaya Chara is a small village on the great BAM. The highest railway in Russia (Khani - Novaya Chara) Novaya Chara station

21.12.2023

New Chara is a small dot on the map, located on the dark line indicating the railway.

1. Novaya Chara station

The railway and the village are inextricably linked by strong ties; they were born together and exist together, supporting life in each other. New Chara arose as a station on the BAM, which became a monument to the era in which this great highway was erected, as well as a monument to the state that decided on such a feat - the construction of railway tracks passing through a vast expanse of harsh and undeveloped lands.

2. Railroad

The BAM stations were built by the republics that made up that state. Each republic designed and built a station allocated to it and a village serving it, trying to leave a trace and memory of itself and its culture in the buildings. It fell to Kazakhstan to build New Chara. Therefore, on the walls of the railway station in Novaya Char there are bas-reliefs depicting scenes from the life of the Kazakh people. Perhaps the very outline of the station building bears the style of Kazakh architecture.

3. Bas-reliefs on the wall of the railway station in Novaya Chara

In any case, the railway station is a rather beautiful, cozy and, at the same time, modern and spacious building, which does not at all give you the feeling that you have arrived in a small settlement remote from civilization.
The railway station is surrounded by five-story houses, located on spacious, bright streets, which quickly lead to the edge of the village, where the houses are simpler: wooden and sometimes quite dilapidated.

3. Courtyard in Novaya Chara

4. Residential buildings in Novaya Chara

5. Five-story buildings

6. Residential areas

7.Prospect

New Chara seemed to be concentrated near the station, which is the center of life for almost every person in this miniature town. In fact, this is not far from the truth: most of the jobs in Novaya Char are provided by the railway, which is how the village exists. In addition, the railway is almost the only thread connecting Novaya Chara and other stations-villages of the BAM with the mainland. Of course, there is also a road road next to the railway, but when driving along the BAM, sometimes I noticed that across some rivers there is only a railway bridge, and all that remains of the road bridge are fragments and memories. It seems that the highway becomes a full-fledged one only in winter, when rivers and other troubles in the form of spills, mud and swamps completely freeze.

8. The road leading out of the village

9. Road outside the village

Once you reach the edge of the village, and this can be done in about thirty minutes, you will need rubber boots to walk through the swamps, and thick clothes to make your way through the tenacious larch forest, but in the village itself people walk along the streets in coats and shoes, and In general, they lead an ordinary life.

10. On the outskirts of Novaya Chara

11. On the outskirts of Novaya Chara

12. Spring in Novaya Chara

And Novaya Chara itself is quite similar to any other small town located in the more densely populated parts of the country. There are also shops and schools, a museum and a pharmacy. Children play ball and skateboard at the stadium. On the outskirts of the town, people live in private houses and plant vegetable gardens. Unless the pipes are laid not underground, but above it, and carefully hidden in special wooden shelters. And the beds in vegetable gardens are also raised above the ground and look like long rectangular boxes covered with soil.

13. Museum

14. Decorative elements in the museum courtyard

15. Pipeline in the shelter

16. Vegetable garden in a private house

17. Basketball

18. Basketball

19. Basketball

20. Thickets of larches attacked the pipeline

Ordinary small-town life exists in a small area of space surrounded by swamps, forests, rivers and mountains - many kilometers of wild, undeveloped land. Isn't this the attraction and charm of the New Chara? Or maybe it’s about her stubbornness, perseverance and firm intention to maintain this small light, the center of civilization, in a huge, harsh and wild territory?

New Chara- an urban-type settlement in the Kalarsky district of the Trans-Baikal Territory. Located 16 km south of the district center - the village. Chara, at the confluence of the river. Nirungnakan in the river. Chara (left tributary of the Olekma river). Population – 4 thousand inhabitants. (2016).

History of New Chara

Founded in 1979 during the construction of the BAM. In February 1979 in the village. Novaya Chara began the construction of the first residential buildings (detachment named after E.I. Burova from SMP-577). In 1981, the Novocharsky Village Council was formed. In December 1981, the first landing party of builders of the SMP “KazakhBAMstroy” began working (the Kazakh SSR was the chief for the construction of the village). In 1982, construction of the station began. Chara, where the first working train arrived on November 7, 1983. In 1986, the settlement received the status of an urban-type settlement. The name was given to him by R. Chara (from the Evenki “char” or the Yakut “chaara” - shoal; the river really abounds in shoals, rifts, and large rapids).

Novaya Chara station

The Novaya Chara railway station is located at 1719 km of the BAM. It was opened in 1989.

Charoite

In honor of r. Enchantment was the name of a valuable ornamental stone - charoite. The mineral charoite was first discovered by the Soviet geologist Vladimir Georgievich Ditmar in 1948 in the area between the Chara and Tokko rivers. The only deposit of charoite in the world is located in the Olekminsky region of Yakutia. For its amazing properties, charoite is called the “lilac miracle of Siberia.”

Chara Desert

10 km northwest of the station. Novaya Chara is a unique natural monument - Chara Sands tract (Chara Desert). The size of the tract is approximately 10 km by 5 km. The height of individual dunes reaches 30 m. On the site of the Chara desert 60-100 thousand years ago there was a large reservoir, which apparently disappeared 12-15 thousand years ago during the end of the last glaciation. With the help of the “work” of the wind, a desert was formed in place of the lake. There are no analogues of the Chara desert on our planet. Instead of camels, reindeer sometimes wander into the Chara Sands.

Economy

In the village there is a locomotive depot serving the BAM, one of the largest in the region, and a track distance, as well as Apsat Coal Mining Company LLP, BAMstroyput JSC, Zabaikalstalinvest JSC, Avanta LLC and other enterprises.

30 km. south of the village is the Udokan copper deposit, the third largest copper deposit in the world (about 20 million tons). As of December 2010, geological exploration is being carried out at the field.

Village

In Novaya Chara there are - a secondary school, a kindergarten, a music school, a House of Children's Creativity (since 2010 moved to secondary school No. 2), a House of Culture "Charskie Zori" (closed since 2010), the Kalar Museum of Local Lore, the Central District Library, a central hospital , non-state clinic, since 2011 - clinic of the central district hospital, Sports Club "Kodar", Armwrestling Federation of the Trans-Baikal Territory. In 2008, at the invitation of the local administration, world champion in Armwrestling Voronetsky A.V. moved to Novaya Chara for permanent residence. Already in 2012, his student took first place at the Russian Championship and became a master of sports.

There are many creative associations and dance groups in Novaya Chara. Vocal ensemble "Planet of Childhood", VIA group "Black Humor", "Stimul" and "Remix", "Tip Top" and "Inspiration".

In the summer there is a school camp.

Communications and services sector

In 2004, the Kalartelecom network (currently MEGAline) was formed in the village, although until 2008, in addition to Kalartelecom, there was the Atlantis network (joined CPC). Today (2012), the leader in the supply of telephone and Internet communications is OJSC Rostelecom. In 2009, private companies appeared, such as “Our Taxi”, “Our Shoes”, and there are also many private shops in the village. Since 1941, the newspaper “Severnaya Pravda” was published throughout the region, including in the village, and since 2008 the newspaper “Fresh Number” appeared. Also, local cable television began operating (around 2009) with the possibility of advertising in a floating line.

Nature

In the village area, along the Nirungnakan River, the Spruce-Chosenia Grove grows, reaching a height of more than 50-100 meters, which is also a natural monument of regional significance

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In April of this year, I had the opportunity to travel by train along the highest and most beautiful section of Russian railways - the station section. Hani - trans. Mururinsky (1317 m.) - station. New Chara (see photo 1). The length of this section of the BAM is only 125 km (or 3 hours on the road), but the impressions from it will last a lifetime...

1. Scheme of the Khani - Novaya Chara section (taken from the Yandex map)

2. The starting point of our journey is St. Hani, this is my train (Tynda - Anapa).

Let's take advantage of its long parking (30 minutes) and get to know the village better. Honey.

Honey- the place on the highway is quite unique. Firstly, this is the only village in Sakha-Yakutia on the “Big BAM”. In addition, Khani station is the place where the East Siberian and Far Eastern railways connect. From here it is 2380 kilometers to Irkutsk (directorate of the first road), 2380 kilometers to Khabarovsk (directorate of the second road). Amazing coincidence in distances! Some say that this is a coincidence, others see the “finger of God” in this.

In general, there were many different boundaries in this place. Here two federal districts of Russia are divided: Siberian and Far Eastern. Khani is the only village on the BAM where three administrative regions meet: Yakutia, Amur and Chita regions. This is the only village in the BAM region, whose residents are served by railway kilometers of three regions at once.

Hani station was both designed and built as the main stronghold in the construction of roads and railways across the Udokan ridge, where the BAM rises to its highest point (1316.93 meters). By the way, in Khani, all trains have a long stop (about half an hour), since here the diesel locomotives of the Novaya Chara ESR depot are replaced with diesel locomotives of the Tynda FERW depot and vice versa, depending on the direction of movement. And since both pairs of fast trains pass the station during daylight hours (in spring and summer), any inquisitive traveler always has time to take a short walk around this amazing place, seeing with his own eyes the harsh beauty of the south of Sakha-Yakutia.

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3. I also found some time, so enjoy...

4. Hani (2.04.10)

5. Local station

6. Half an hour later, the conductor herded everyone into the carriage and we set off.

Next, in chronological order, I will post pictures that I took as the train moved. The numbering of each of them contains one of two letters L (left, along the way) or P (on right). Let's start!

7P. Rocks near Hanei (you can see them a little already in the 6th photo).

8P. Rails, rails, sleepers, sleepers. The train was coming from... Oh! Please note that all sleepers are wooden!

9P. It looks like a river, but it is one of the many aufeis!

10P. Yakutia is ending, and we have a long climb ahead.

11L. Having made a small loop, we begin to smoothly rise upward.

12L. We climb higher, and in the distance, our previous path is already visible.

13L. Forests, mountains, ice fields - such are the landscapes here.

14L. 1833 km

15L. The beginning of the Mururin upsurge.

16L. Eh! This is the weather, but unfortunately you can’t get off the train!

17L. The ascent to the highest point of the Russian Railways, unexpectedly, turns out to be very straight and smooth.

18L. We continue to climb up and learn the basics of railway mountaineering :)

19L. Every minute, the picture below becomes smaller and smaller...

20L. And gradually, I begin to forget that I am traveling by train. It already feels like I’m flying on an airplane!!!

21L. Height - 1200 meters! The flight is normal! :)

22L. Just a little more.... pull the diesel locomotives! (they say that we are going on double traction)

23L. More... more... Well!!!

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Finally!!! We have climbed to the highest point of the Russian railways!!!... We are on Mururina!!! :))))
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24L. On the Mururinsky pass (height - 1316, 93 meters above sea level).