Information about the city of Kyakhta
Status: a town of regional subordination, the administrative center of the Kyakhta Region of the Buryat Republic.
Kyakhta is located in Transbaikalia near the Mongolian border, on the Selenginskoye mid-mountains, 35 km east of the Naushki
railway station, 235 km south of Ulan-Ude.
Phone code: +7 30142 ******
Economy.
Spinning and knitting factory, milk and brewery plants. Bakery plant and other enterprises.
Wheat, oats, barley, buckwheat, potato, corn, pea are cultivated in the Kyakhta Region. Cattle, horses, sheep, pigs are raised
here.
In the Kholonkhoy village there is a concentrated mill, working on imported raw materials (fluor spar from Mongolia).
Culture.
Local Lore Museum n.a. Obruchev. Planetarium.
In Kyakhta travels of famous researchers of Asia began and finished - N.M. Przhevalsky, G.N. and A.V. Potaniny, V.A. Obruchev
and etc.
The monument to the traveller A.V. Potanina.
Museums: The Kyakhta Local Lore Museum n.a. the academician V.A. Obruchev, the Memorial House-Flat "Safe House" of
Sukhe-Bator, the Memorial House-Flat of the 1st Congress of Mongolian Revolutionary Party.
Sights: Building in the 18th-19th centuries was mainly carried out under 3 main lines, which coincided in the center,
where are the city garden and the Trinity Cathedral (1812-17; classicism). The stone buildings were built in the main street,
in the other streets there were wooden houses. The Voskresenskaya Church (1838; classicism), the Uspenskaya Church (1857),
the Gostiny Dvor, row of shopping stalls.
