Krasny Jar (Astrakhan)

Village Krasny Jar Красный Яр flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Astrakhan Rajon Krasnoyarsky Founded 1667 Village since 1925 population 11,824 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 20  m below sea level Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 85146 Post Code 416150 License Plate 30th OKATO 12 230 836 001 Website www.krasniyar.ru Geographical location Coordinates 46 ° 32 '  N , 48 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 32 '0 "  N , 48 ° 20' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Astrakhan Oblast

List of large settlements in Russia

Krasny Jar ( Russian Кра́сный Яр ) is a village (selo) and former city in Astrakhan Oblast in Russia with 11,824 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located in the Volga Delta about 30 km as the crow flies northeast of the Astrakhan Oblast Administrative Center and a good 15 km from the state border with Kazakhstan . It is located on the left bank of the large left branch of the Volga River, Busan, a little below the confluence of the Akhtuba in it, on an island between the two smaller branches, Majachnaja and Prorwa, which flow east from the Busan and which are a good 4 km east to Krivoy Busan ( "Crooked Busan") unite.

Krasny Yar is the administrative center Rajons Krasnojarski and seat of the rural community selsowet (selskoje posselenije) Krasnojarski, also (north then, on the opposite, left bank of Maja sealed Well-Arms) (km north 4) belong to the village Majatschnoje and the settlement Pervomaisky.

Almost half of the residents of the Rajon and its administrative seat are Kazakhs .

history

The place goes back to a fortress that was built from 1667 (according to other sources as early as 1650) in the area of ​​the then southeastern borders of Tsarist Russia , primarily to monitor the approach from the Caspian Sea into the Volga. In Russian, the name stands for “Red Steep” (another fortress that was built several decades earlier and further upstream on the other Volga rivers serves similar purposes and was called Tschorny Yar , “Black Steep”; there is now the village and center of the Rajon of the same name ).

The settlement formed by the fortress developed relatively quickly and in 1785 became the administrative center of a Ujesd of the Astrakhan governorate founded in 1717 . So she received the city charter. After a series of major fires, the small town was rebuilt according to plan from 1843, and the last remains of the former fortress also disappeared. In the 19th century the place was also called the center of a Cossack settlement and as such Stanitsa Krasnoyarskaya .

In July 1925 the Ujesd was converted into a Rajon. Krasny Jar lost its town charter, but remained the administrative seat.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	5,593
1939	5,096
1959	4,583
1970	6,434
1979	7,926
1989	10,875
2002	10,926
2010	11,824

Note: census data

traffic

Krasny Jar is located on the Astrakhan regional road 12K-040, which connects to the 12A-114 leading to the Kazakh border on the northeastern outskirts. The connection from Astrakhan to the Kazakh border (there as the A27 towards Atyrau  - Aqtöbe ) is part of the European route 40 and was designated A340 until 2010 .

The Busan arm of the Volga can be crossed on the 12K-040 near Krasny Jar by car ferry and at times by pontoon bridge. A fixed bridge is planned, so far without fixed dates.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Ghasis Aldamscharow (* 1947), Kazakh politician and diplomat, chairman of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan since 2010
• Awerki Aristow (1903–1973), Soviet politician and diplomat
• Ivan Tutarinow (1904–1966), Lieutenant General and Commander of the Soviet Airborne Forces

Web links

• Official website of the Raion 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)