Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai |- City -| Location of Zabaykalsky Krai
in Russia |Administrative status (as of January 2012)| |Federal
subject||Zabaykalsky Krai| |Administrative district||Chitinsky
District| |Administrative center of||Zabaykalsky Krai, Chitinsky
District| |Municipal status (as of December 2009)| |Urban
okrug||Chita Urban Okrug| |Administrative center of||Chita Urban
Okrug| |Mayor||Anatoly Mikhalyov| |Population (2010
Census)||324,444 inhabitants| |- Rank in 2010||56th| |Time
zone||YAKT (UTC+10:00)| |City status since||July 11, 1851|
|Postal code(s)||672000–672051| |Dialing code(s)||+7 3022| Chita
(Russian: Чита; IPA: [tɕɪˈta]) is a city and the administrative
center of Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of
the Chita and Ingoda Rivers and on the Trans-Siberian Railway,
900 kilometers (560 mi) east of Irkutsk. Population: 324,444
(2010 Census); 316,643 (2002 Census); 365,754 (1989 Census). The
region was originally inhabited by local Mongolic and Turkic
tribes, along with various Chin