Kuragino
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Kuragino ( Russian Кура́гино ) is an urban-type settlement in the Krasnoyarsk region ( Russia ) with 13,743 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The settlement is located in the foothills of the Sayan Mountains , about 250 kilometers (as the crow flies) south of the regional capital Krasnoyarsk and 80 kilometers east of the capital of the neighboring republic of Khakassia Abakan on the right bank of the Yenisei tributary Tuba, slightly below its origin from the headwaters of the Kasyr and Amyl rivers .
Kuragino is the administrative center of the Kuragino Rajon of the same name .
history
In place of the current location, a settlement was established in 1626, named after the local Turkic (or " Kyrgyz ", as these peoples were called in their entirety in the Asian part of Russia at that time) Prince's son Kuraga. In 1709 the Turkish- Mongolian Tubinsker or Tuba Principality was annexed to Russia.
In the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, more and more Russians settled there, engaged in agriculture and continued to mine mineral resources in the mountains, such as iron ore from 1738 and gold from 1860 . Kuragino became one of the most important villages in the area.
Especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries Kuragino was a place of political exile , for example from 1836 for the Decembrists Alexei Tjuttschew (around 1800–1856) and Nikolai Mosgalewski (1801–1844), participants in the Polish uprisings , Narodniki or the Social Democrats or Bolsheviks Viktor Kurnatowski (1868–1912), Jelena Stassowa (1873–1966), Panteleimon Lepeschinski (1868–1944) and Olga Lepeschinskaja (1871–1963).
With the establishment of a Rajon, Kuragino became its administrative center in 1924, after it had previously belonged to the Okrug Minussinsk of the Yeniseisk Governorate .
In 1961, in connection with the construction of the South Siberian Railway Novokuznetsk –Abakan– Taischet , which had grown since the late 1950s, was given the status of an urban-type settlement. The railway line was opened in 1965.
From the early 1990s, Kuragino became known when Sergei Torop, known as Vissarion, established himself in the remote area belonging to the Rajon on the upper reaches of the Kasyr with his sect-like "Church of the Last Testament" and founded the "Ecopolis Tiberkul" on the lake of the same name .
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1939 | 9,063 |
| 1959 | 9,169 |
| 1970 | 12,282 |
| 1979 | 12,283 |
| 1989 | 14,351 |
| 2002 | 14,298 |
| 2010 | 13,743 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
The main attraction of the area is the mountains of the Sajan with its over 2000 meter high mountains, rock formations and caves as well as rivers rich in waterfalls and rapids. Kuragino is one of the starting points for visiting the southwestern part of Eastern Sayan and Eastern Western Sayan, which meet in the far east of the Rajon.
There is a local museum in Kuragino; a branch has been located in the nearby village of Beryozovskoye since 1988. In the place itself a new wooden church of the delivery of the Holy Spirit ( церковь Сошествия Святого Духа / zerkow Soschestwija Swjatowo Ducha ) was built.
Economy and Infrastructure
There are forestry, agricultural and construction industries in Kuragino. Mining is carried out in the Rajon around Bolshaya Irba and Artyomovsk .
Here is a station of the South Siberian Railway (route km 490 from Novokuznetsk ). Kuragino was chosen as the starting point for the planned 400-kilometer-long railway connection to Kyzyl , the capital of the Tuva Republic , which is to cross the Western Sayan, which is around 1500 meters high in this area in the passages. The construction of the line was first considered in 1937, taken up again in the 1980s and is now one of the projects to be implemented despite the cost of 131 billion rubles.
Through the village, the road from Minussinsk where connection to the highway M54 Krasnoyarsk-Abakan- Kyzyl exists in the mining area to Artyomovsk. The road crosses the Tuba on a 500-meter-long bridge to the west of the town that was opened in 1997.
From 1946 to 1997, the tuba was used as far as Kuragino for inland shipping with smaller vehicles.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ History of the Rajons ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2009 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. in the official web portal of the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Russian)
- ↑ a b The old village of Kuragino ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Contribution by Antonina Kaljuga, head of the archives of the Kuragino district administration, on a private website about the place (Russian)
- ↑ Museum at museum.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Entry ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at sobory.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Article in Gudok , daily newspaper of the Russian Railways, November 25, 2008 (Russian)
- ↑ Article in Gudok of January 21, 2009 (Russian)
Web links
- Private website on Kuragino Rajon with information about the site ( Memento from July 31, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian, photos )
