Ajagös

Ajagös Аягөз ( kas. ) | Аягоз ( Russian )
Basic data
State :	Kazakhstan
Territory :	East Kazakhstan
Audany:	Ajagös
Founded :	1831
Coordinates :	47 ° 58 '  N , 80 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '0 "  N , 80 ° 26' 0"  E
Height :	665  m
Area :	160.73  km²
Residents :	38,373 (Jan 1, 2020)
Population density :	239 inhabitants per km²
Time zone :	EKST ( UTC + 6 )
Telephone code :	(+7) 72237
Postal code :	070200-070202, F24 ****
License plate :	16 (old: F, U)
Community type:	city
Location in Kazakhstan

Ajagös ( Kazakh Аягөз ; Russian Аягоз Ajagos ) is a city in Kazakhstan with 38,373 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). Today it is an important traffic junction in the east of the country and an important military base.

Geographical location

Ajagös is located in western Kazakhstan in the Eastern Kazakhstan region . The city is located on the south-eastern edge of the Saryarka , an extensive steppe in the center of the country, on both banks of the river Ajagös . Ajagös is the administrative center of the Audany Ajagös .

population

In 2020, 38,373 people lived in Ajagös. Over 90 percent of them are ethnic Kazakhs , five percent Russians and around one percent Tatars .

Population development
1939	1959	1970	1979	1989	1999	2009
21,298	31,061	35,827	38,969	42,729	38,470	37,537

history

The place was founded in 1831 by Sergei Lukin. In 1854 the place, which was named after the river of the same name, became the administrative seat of a Rajon in the newly founded Semipalatinsk Oblast. From 1860 Ajagös was downgraded to a rural settlement belonging to the Lepsi district and was given the name Sergiopol (Сергиополь). On December 31, 1928, a pogrom of ethnic Russians against Kazakhs took place in the city . Today's city emerged largely from 1931 as a station settlement with the construction of the Turkestan-Siberian Railway. In 1939 the place was granted city rights and was renamed Ajagos.

The development of the city began in the Soviet Union with the connection to the railway network. A telegraph office was set up, the first schools were opened and the population began to grow. Companies for the maintenance of locomotives emerged, which created jobs and attracted people from the surrounding villages to the city. Later a meat processing company and a company for the production of felt boots were founded. Ajagös was developed into an important military base in the Soviet Union due to its geographical proximity to China. In addition to a tank division , an anti-aircraft missile brigade was stationed here.

traffic

The city is located on the Turkestan-Siberian railway line and is also an important highway junction in eastern Kazakhstan, because this is where the important east-west route A20 from Temirtau and the more than 1000 km long A3 , which connects the former capital Almaty with the East Kazakh administrative center connects Öskemen ( Ust-Kamenogorsk ).

See also

• List of cities in Kazakhstan

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Численность населения Республики Казахстан по полу в разрезе областей и столицы, столицы, столицы, анколицы, столицы, городоав, областей и столицы, анкония, горойцы, коники, городоав,. ( Excel ; 96 KB) stat.gov.kz, accessed on July 19, 2020 (Russian). 
2. ^ Kazakhstan: Cities and towns. pop-stat.mashke.org, accessed on August 24, 2020.
3. ↑ Восточно-Казахстанская область: Аягозский район. invest.e-vko.kz, accessed on August 25, 2020 (Russian).
4. ^ Matt Payne: The Forge of the Kazakh Proletariat? The Turksib, Nativization, and Industrialization during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan , in: Ronald Grigor Suny / Terry Martin (editor): A State of Nations - Empire and Nation-Making in the Age of Lenin and Stalin , Oxford / New York 2001 , P. 223 (pp. 223-252).