Chadan is a town and the administrative center of Dzun-Khemchiksky District

Dzun-Khemchiksky District

Dzun-Khemchiksky District is one of the seventeen administrative divisions of the Tuva Republic, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as the Municipal District of the Dzun-Khemchiksky Kozhuun. Its administrative center is the town of Chadan. District's population: 21,361 ; Population of...

 of the Tuva Republic, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Chadan River (Yenisei

Yenisei River

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's basin

Drainage basin

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), 224 kilometres (139.2 mi) west of Kyzyl

Kyzyl

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. Population:

Chadan has been known since 1873. Town status was granted to it in 1945.

There are a bread

Bread

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-making and a butter

Butter

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-making plants in the town. Coal

Coal

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is mined in the town's vicinity.