Nalaikh

Nalaikh (Mongolian: Налайх [naɮɛ́χ]) is one of nine districts of Ulaanbaatar. It has an area of 68,700 hectares and a population of 39,579 in 2022^[2] (26,529 in 2005). A former coal-mining town, it consists of Shokhoi, Arjanchivlan, the Terelj holiday center, and other residential areas, as well as a former Soviet military cantonment, including an airfield.^[3]

CountryMongolia

Settlement founded1922^[1]

Elevation

1,459 m (4,787 ft)

Time zoneUTC+8 (UTC + 8)

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Nalaikh District Налайх дүүрэг ᠨᠠᠯᠠᠶᠢᠬᠤᠲᠡᠭᠦᠷᠭᠡ
Municipal District
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Coordinates: 47°46′21″N 107°15′13″E
Country	Mongolia
Municipality	Ulaanbaatar
Settlement founded	1922[1]
City status	1962
Raion status	1965
Reorganized as district	1992
Government
• Body	Citizens' Representatives Khural of the Ulaanbaatar city
• Governor of District	D.Nayanbayar
Area
• Total	687.6 km2 (265.5 sq mi)
Elevation	1,459 m (4,787 ft)
Population  (2022)
• Total	39,579
Time zone	UTC+8 (UTC + 8)
Area code	+976 (0) 23
Vehicle registration	НА_ (_ variable)
Website	Official website

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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 city status in 1961, but later became a raion of Ulaanbaatar in 1965.^[4] It was later established as a district of Ulaanbaatar following the 1992 reorganization of administrative divisions in Mongolia. Since the closure of the coal mine in the 1990s, the district has had a high rate of unemployment.^[3]