Nizhneangarsk

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Nizhneangarsk

an urban-type settlement, the center of Severo-Baikal’skii Raion, Buriat ASSR. A landing on the north shore of Lake Baikal. The settlement has a fish-processing plant and logging camps.

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Dozens of passengers are believed to be injured after the An-24 passenger jet crash landed at Nizhneangarsk airport.

Russia plane crash: At least two dead after jet forced to make emergency landing; Two pilots were killed and at least seven passengers were injured after the An-24 passenger jet crash landed at Nizhneangarsk airport in Russia

A statement by the authorities said the airplane has taken off this morning from Nizhneangarsk airport en route to Ulan-Ude.

2 killed, 22 injured after An-24 skids off runway in Buryatia

There were 46 people, including four crew, on board the plane, which was en route from the regional capital of Ulan-Ude to Nizhneangarsk.

Two killed, 7 injured as Russian plane makes emergency landing

Summary: Moscow [Russia], Jun 27 (ANI): Two people were killed and 19 others sustained injuries after an An-24 passenger plane rolled off the runway while making an emergency landing on Nizhneangarsk airport in Russia's Republic of Buryatia on Thursday.

The incident took place when an Angara Airlines flight en route from Ulan-Ude to Irkutsk made an emergency landing on Nizhneangarsk airport at 10:24 am (local time) after one of its engines failed.

Two killed after Russian plane skids off runway

From there, they rode up the west side to the town of Nizhneangarsk at the northern end of the lake.

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Burpala, located 100 km to the north of Nizhneangarsk on Lake Baikal, consists of nepheline syenites in the central part and syenites in peripheral parts of the massif.