Jenotayevka

Village Jenotajewka Енотаевка coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Astrakhan Rajon Jenotayevka head Salawat Achmetschin Founded 1741 Earlier names Jenotajewsk (1785-1925) Village since 1925 population 7616 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 10  m below sea level Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 85143 Post Code 416200 License Plate 30th OKATO 12 215 816 001 Website enotaevka.astranet.ru Geographical location Coordinates 47 ° 15 '  N , 47 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 14 '37 "  N , 47 ° 1' 58"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Astrakhan Oblast

Jenotajewka ( Russian Енотаевка ; 1785-1925 Jenotajewsk , Russian Енотаевск after old orthography Енотаевскъ) is a village (selo) in the Astrakhan oblast in Russia . It is the administrative seat of the Yenotayevka Rajons and has 7616 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

location

The place is 154 km northwest of the regional capital Astrakhan above the right high bank of the Volga on the river Yenotayevka . In addition to the Selo Jenotajewka, the settlement Gospitomnika (Госпитомника; 2006: 17 inhabitants) belongs to the local area.

history

Jenotajewka was founded in 1741 at the behest of Tsarina Elizabeth by the newly appointed governor of Astrakhan Vasily Tatishchev as a center for trade with the neighboring steppe peoples and as a fortress to protect the Astrakhan- Moscow postal route . In 1785 the settlement, renamed Jenotajewsk , received city ​​rights and became the administrative center of its own Ujesd . In the course of the municipal reorganization of 1925, Yenotayevsk lost its city status again.

The etymology of the place name is not yet clear. It is derived either from the personal name Jenotai or from the combination of the Turkish language yan (side) and tau (mountain), which could refer to the elevated position of the place above the Volga-Akhtuba lowlands ; In any case, the "Berg Jenotai" appears as early as 1703 in the travelogues of the Dutch engraver Cornelis de Bruijn .

Population development

The following overview shows the development of the population of Yenotayevka.

year	Residents
1939	3.810
1959	4,710
1970	6.163
1979	7,039
1989	7,836
2002	8,022
2010	7,616

Note: census data

traffic

The next connection to the rail network is in Charabali, 30 km to the northeast . Yenotayevka is connected to the trunk road network by the M6 Moscow – Astrakhan main road, which is 3 km to the west . In the nearby village of Nikolskoye there is a ship landing stage on the Volga.

Attractions

The Trinity Church (Троицкий собор) on the central square of the town was built in 1832 in classicist forms based on plans by the Petersburg architect Iosif Charlemagne . It is a co- cathedral of the Astrakhan-Yenotayevka eparchy .

Web links

• Rajons administration website (Russian)
• Essays on the politics, history and geography of Yenotayevka Raion (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)