Yashkul

settlement Yashkul Яшкуль Federal district Southern Russia republic Kalmykia Rajon Yashkul head Telman Chaglyshev Founded 1883 Settlement since 1992 population 7861 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 5  m below sea level Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84746 Post Code 359150 License Plate 08 OKATO 85 254 885 001 Geographical location Coordinates 46 ° 10 '  N , 45 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 10 '10 "  N , 45 ° 20' 34"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kalmykia

Yashkul ( Kalmyk and Russian Яшкуль ) is a rural settlement (Possjolok) in the Russian Republic of Kalmykia and the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name . It has 7861 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

Geography and population

Yashkul bus station

Jaschkul is located in the Kalmyk steppe, almost 100 kilometers east of the republic capital Elista on the federal highway R216 leading to Astrakhan .

The place had 7,399 inhabitants in the 2002 census. The vast majority of these are Kalmyks . The rural community of the same name (selskoje posselenije) includes not only Jaschkul but also the settlement of Oling, ten kilometers to the northwest.

climate

Yashkul has a continental climate . On July 11, 2010, an absolute record temperature for Russia of +44.0 ° C was reached in Yashkul.

history

The place was founded in 1883 by resettlers from the Astrakhan governorate and central Russia as well as settled, previously nomadic Kalmyks. On January 25, 1920 he became the administrative center of a newly founded Rajons.

During the Second World War , in the summer of 1942 , the German Wehrmacht reached the easternmost point in Jaschkul Rajon, to which it could advance during the entire war, before the Red Army stopped it at the end of August in front of the village of Chulchuta (then also called Chalchuta, another 90 kilometers to the east) . Yashkul itself was occupied from mid-August to December 29, 1942.

Yashkul received urban-type settlement status in the 1960s , but lost it again in 1992.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	3,248
1959	2,684
1970	4,929
1979	6,460
1989	6,662
2002	7,399
2010	7,861

Note: census data

economy

There is a sausage factory near Jaschkul. Sheep breeding is also of great importance; Among other things, sheep are exported to Iran , where lamb is particularly popular at the Nouruz festival.

Education

In Jaschkul there are two middle schools and a boarding school for shepherd children and children from unpaid families.

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. ↑ Fourteen extreme national high temperature records have been set in 2010 . Weather Underground. July 30, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
3. ↑ Jaschkul on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
4. ^ Front reports of the Sowinform office from December 1942 (Russian)