Ilek (Orenburg)

Village Ilek Илек Federal district Volga Oblast Orenburg Rajon Ilekski head Vyacheslav Kryuchkov Founded 1737 Earlier names Ilezki gorodok Ilezkaya population 9760 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 60  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35337 Post Code 461350 License Plate 56 OKATO 53 219 807 001 Website adm-ilek.ru Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 32 '  N , 53 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '30 "  N , 53 ° 22' 50"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Orenburg Oblast

Ilek ( Russian Иле́к ) is a village (selo) in Orenburg Oblast in Russia with 9760 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 120 km as the crow flies west-southwest of the Orenburg Oblast Administrative Center on the northern edge of the Caspian Depression . It is located on the left, Asian bank of the Ural River , which, according to a popular definition, marks the inner Eurasian border . The important left tributary Ilek flows into the Urals a little below . The state border with Kazakhstan runs about four kilometers south of the town.

The village is the administrative center Rajons Ilekski and seat of the rural community selsowet (selskoje posselenije) Ilekski, also includes the ten kilometers east situated village Schutowo to.

history

The place goes back to a fortress built in 1737 on the then southeast border of the Russian Empire to the inner-Asian steppe areas . Around the fortress occupied by Cossacks , a settlement emerged, which was initially called Ilezki gorodok ("Ilek town"), as the fortress was named after the nearby river that flows into the Urals. Mid-19th century, the town was granted the status of a Staniza the Ural Cossacks and as such was one of the most important in the region. The name form Ilezkaja was used as Staniza , later also Ilekskaja. In the first half of the 20th century, the short form of the place name used today came into use.

During the affiliation of the area to the (first) Kyrgyz ASSR (from 1925 Kazakh ASSR ) from 1920, Ilek was the seat of a Ujesd in their Uralsk Oblast . In 1926 Ilek came with the surrounding Volost to the Ujesd Orenburg of the Orenburg governorate of the Russian SFSR , while the part of the Ujesd that remained in Kazakhstan was dissolved in 1927. In the same year the Volost Ilek was transformed into a Rajon, the seat of which the place has been ever since.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	7154
1939	7380
1959	7908
1970	8466
1979	8993
1989	9679
2002	9953
2010	9760

Note: census data

traffic

Ilek is bypassed south-east by the federal highway A305 coming from Orenburg , which crosses the state border there and continues as the Kazakh A30 down the left bank of the Urals to Oral . This route is part of the direct connection between the major Russian cities of Saratov and Orenburg via Kazakh territory. The regional road 53K-1201000 branches off in Ilek, crosses the Ural River and continues through the southwest of Orenburg Oblast via the neighboring district of Taschla to Sobolewo near Pervomaiski .

The closest train station in Russia is in Novosergijewka, about 70 kilometers to the north, on the ( Moscow  -) Samara  - Orenburg (-  Aqtöbe  - Tashkent ) route, while the Saratov - Orenburg route through the city of Aqsai, just under 50 kilometers southwest of Kazakhstan - Sol-Ilezk is running.

Web links

• Official website of the municipal administration (Russian)

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)