A town and the administrative center of Nerchinsky District in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia. It stands on the left bank of the Nercha River, 7 kilometres above its confluence with the Shilka River, 644 kilometres east of Lake Baikal, about 225 kilometres west of the Chinese border and 305 kilometres east of Chita, the administrative center of the krai. Its name appears in several languages, including Russian, Buryat, Mongolian and Manchu. The recorded population was 6,713 in 1897, 16,961 in the 1989 Soviet census, 15,748 in the 2002 census and 14,959 in the 2010 census.
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