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Nalaikh District
Налайх дүүрэг
ᠨᠠᠯᠠᠶᠢᠬᠤᠲᠡᠭᠦᠷᠭᠡ
Former coal mine in Nalaikh, 2009
Former coal mine in Nalaikh, 2009
Coordinates: 47°46′21″N 107°15′13″E / 47.77250°N 107.25361°E / 47.77250; 107.25361
Country Mongolia
Municipality Ulaanbaatar
Area
 • Total687.6 km2 (265.5 sq mi)
Elevation
1,459 m (4,787 ft)
Population
 (2022)
 • Total39,579
Time zone UTC+8 (UTC + 8)
Area code+976 (0) 23
Vehicle registrationНА_ (_ variable)

Nalaikh ( Mongolian: Налайх) is one of nine districts ( düüreg) of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. It has an area of 68,700 hectares and a population of 39,579 in 2022 [1] (26,529 in 2005). A former coal-mining town, it is subdivided into 8 subdistricts ( khoroo) incorporating Shokhoi, Arjanchivlan, Terelj holiday center, and other residential areas, as well as a former Soviet military cantonment, including an airfield. [2]

Nalaikh is linked to Ulaanbaatar by a 43-kilometer narrow-gauge railway line, built in July 1938. The line had three stations (Nalaikh; Amgalan, a Ulaanbaatar suburb; and Kombinat, the city's industrial combine) and operated 14 steam locomotives, 16 passenger carriages, 70 goods wagons, 10 platform wagons, and nine fuel tank wagons. Nalaikh now has a broad-gauge branch line (via Khonkhor) to the Trans-Mongolian Railway. The Kapitalnaya shaft went into operation in 1951, and at full capacity produced 600,000 metric tons of coal a year. Nalaikh gained town status in 1962, and was established as a district of Ulaanbaatar in 1992. Since the closure of the coal mine in the 1990s, the town has had a high rate of unemployment. [2]

Notable people

References

  1. ^ http://www.ubstat.mn/JobTables.aspx/StatTable=256
  2. ^ a b Sanders, Alan J. K. (2010). Historical Dictionary of Mongolia. Scarecrow Press. ISBN  9780810861916.