Novaya Chara

Novaya Chara is an urban locality in Kalarsky District of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. It turned into founded in connection to the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline inside the 1980, near the older village of Chara, named for the river on which it stood. The station and settlement were constructed by means of employees from the Kazakh SSR; as a part of the BAM task, sections of the path have been placed underneath the patronage of Komsomol brigades from different elements of the Soviet Union.

Regular rail site visitors from Tynda in Amur Oblast to Novaya Chara started in 1988; traffic from the west of the agreement on the section from Severobaykalsk began in 1989. The of entirety of the BAM did no longer carry the predicted financial improvement to the place, and with the monetary disaster of the past due 1980, around half the population left. Nearby are the Udokan copper deposit, Chineysky vanadium deposit and Unkur silver-copper deposit.

Novaya Chara's most effective actual economic interest centers on its state of affairs as an critical station on the BAM. However, there may be capability for the settlement to end up the center for a mining area currently underneath development, with a 66-kilometer branch line built between 1998 and 2002 from Novaya Chara to the titanium, vanadium, and iron ore mine Chineyskoye.