Argayash

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Argayash (disambiguation) .

Village Argayash Argaysh flag Federal district Ural Oblast Chelyabinsk Rajon Argayash Founded 1895 population 10,061 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35131 Post Code 456880-456881 License Plate 74, 174 OKATO 75 206 812 001 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 30 ′  N , 60 ° 53 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 29 ′ 30 "  N , 60 ° 52 ′ 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Chelyabinsk Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Argajasch ( Russian Аргая́ш ) is a village (selo) in the Chelyabinsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 10,061 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The village is located in the southeastern foothills of the Urals , about 50 km as the crow flies northwest of the Oblast capital Chelyabinsk on the western bank of the lake of the same name, without drainage.

Argajash is the administrative center of the Argajash Rajon of the same name . 60% of the population of the Raion are Bashkirs .

history

The place was founded in 1895 in connection with the construction of the Chelyabinsk - Yekaterinburg railway line . The toponym, which can be found in an older form than Yargojash , can be traced back to the Bashkir words jar and kojasch for bank and sun , which means, for example, sunny bank .

The east of the Uralhauptkammes lying, inhabited mainly by Bashkirs areas were as the main settlement area westernmost end of 1917 / early 1918 from Bashkir Central to parts of the first Kleinbaschkirien declared autonomous territory called. This included the area around Argayash. After the founding of the Bashkir ASSR on March 23, 1919, the place became the center of the canton Argayash of the Bashkir ASSR as an enclave within the then Ural Oblast. With the establishment of the Chelyabinsk Oblast on January 17, 1934, the area was transferred to it as the Bashkir national district of Argayash. The national circle only existed for a few months and on November 17, 1934, it was transformed into an ordinary Rajon with an administrative center in Argajash.

Population development

year	Residents
1926	1,403
1939	4,870
1959	7,373
1970	8,683
1979	9,601
1989	10,526
2002	10.170
2010	10,061

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In the west of the Rajon, about 20 km from Argayash, lies the Uwildy Lake, a recreational area of ​​local importance. In the nearby villages near the lake Gubernskoje and Kusnezkoje are Russian Orthodox churches from the 19th century preserved. In Rajon are archaeological sites from the Neolithic period (Staro-Sobolewo and Novo-Sobolewo the village Norkino).

Economy and Infrastructure

There are farms, forestry and food industries in Argayash. The Mayak nuclear facility is located 30 kilometers to the north .

The settlement is on the Yekaterinburg - Chelyabinsk railway line (km 192). The road that connects the M36 north of Chelyabinsk with the cities of Kyschtym , Osjorsk and Kasli and continues to the north-west of the oblast runs through the town.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Argayash on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)

Web links

• Argayash Raion Administration website (Russian)