Bolscherechye

Urban-type settlement Bolsherechye Большеречье Federal district Siberia Oblast Omsk Rajon Bolscherechye First mention 1741 Urban-type settlement since 1960 population 11,271 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 65  m Time zone UTC + 6 Telephone code (+7) 38169 Post Code 646670-646672 License Plate 55 OKATO 52 203 551 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 6 '  N , 74 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 6 '0 "  N , 74 ° 38' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Omsk Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Bolscheretschje ( Russian Большере́чье ) is an urban-type settlement in the Omsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 11,271 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the southeast of the West Siberian lowlands , almost 150 km as the crow flies northeast of the Oblast capital Omsk on the left bank of the Irtysh .

Bolscheretschje is the administrative center of the Bolscheretschje Rajon of the same name .

history

The history of the Russian settlement of the area began with the establishment of the farmer and Cossack fortified settlement Takmyzkaja sloboda , about 15 km north of Bolsheretschje, near today's village Takmyk, in the year 1682. Until the construction of the fortress Omsk in 1716 it was that of settlers from northern Russia ( Pomorje , Veliki Ustjug , vom Mesen ) established the southernmost Russian settlement in the Irtysh region.

In 1705/06 the wooden fortifications were relocated upstream to around the site of today's location. In connection with a renovation in 1741, the place was first mentioned as Bolscherezki forpost ("Bolscherezker outpost") (from Russian Bolshaya retschka for Great Brook , a water flowing into the Irtysh). With the establishment of a line of defense south of Omsk along the then border of the Russian Empire to the not yet colonized steppe areas of today's Kazakhstan in the 1750s, the place lost its strategic importance and became a normal farming village.

As part of an administrative reform in 1924 Bolscheretschje became the administrative center of a Rajon. In 1960 it received the status of an urban-type settlement under its current name.

Population development

year	Residents
1782	421
1913	718
1939	4,053
1959	6.092
1970	7,999
1979	9,506
1989	12,477
2002	12,361
2010	11,271

Note: from 1939 census data

Culture and sights

The Starina Sibirskaya open-air museum ("Siberian antiquity") was built in Bolscheretschje on the basis of a large number of well-preserved, predominantly wooden residential and farm buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries .

Since 1959 there has also been a history and local history museum in Bolscheretschje, and since 1986 there has also been a picture gallery in which changing exhibitions are shown.

In the southern part of the Rajon, about 40 km from Bolsherechye, between the villages of Borovyanka, Rostovka and Ingaly, there is the Batakovo National Archaeological and Nature Park , which contains important sites of settlements and tombs from different epochs, especially the Iron Age Sargat culture . There is also a rich flora in the park with 395 species of higher plants, including 33 rare or endangered species.

Bolscherechye Zoo

The existence of a zoo in the settlement is unusual , the “only village zoo in Russia”. Founded in 1984 at a school, the facility has been public since 1987. Today over 100,000 people visit the nine hectare facility with an animal population of more than 2000 specimens every year. Over 200 animal species from all over the world can be seen, including more than 30 listed in the “Red List of Endangered Species” , such as the Siberian tiger , red dog , fish cat and Przewalski's horse . The zoo also has an aquarium and terrarium facility.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Bolscheretschje as the center of an agricultural area there are companies in the food industry, as well as companies in the construction and forestry sectors. Great hopes are placed in the development of tourism based on the existing sights.

The settlement is located on the regional road R392 , the Omsk via Tara with Tobolsk in the neighboring Tyumen Oblast . From this a road branches off via Muromzewo on the Tara to Sedelnikowo on the Ui .

The place has a landing stage on the Irtysh, on which passenger shipping is operated.

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. ↑ Pawel Brytschkow: Na reke Bolshoi . In: Bisnes Kurs , Omsk, 42 ​​(269) from October 29, 2008 ( At the great river ; Russian)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Bolscheretschje on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
4. ↑ Website of the "Historical-Cultural Complex Starina Sibirskaja " (Russian)
5. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)
6. ↑ Bolscheretschje Picture Gallery (Russian)
7. ↑ Information about Batakowo ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website Culture of the Regions of Russia (Russian)  
8. ↑ Website of the Bolscheretschjer Zoo (Russian)

Web links

• Bolsherechye Raion on the Oblast Administration website (Russian)