Liman (Astrakhan)

Urban-type settlement Liman Лиман Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Astrakhan Rajon Liman First mention 1889 Earlier names Dolban (until 1943) Urban-type settlement since 1965 population 9024 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 10  m below sea level Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 85147 Post Code 416411 License Plate 30th OKATO 12 235 551 Geographical location Coordinates 45 ° 47 '  N , 47 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 47 '0 "  N , 47 ° 13' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Astrakhan Oblast

Liman ( Russian Лима́н ) is an urban-type settlement in the Astrakhan Oblast ( Russia ) with 9024 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the Caspian Depression , in the steppe areas west of the Volga Delta about 90 km southwest of the Astrakhan Oblast Administrative Center .

Liman is the administrative center of the homonymous southwestern Rajon of the Oblast, Liman .

history

The place was probably created in connection with the construction of a road from Astrakhan to Kislyar , the Kizlyar tract , at the end of the 19th century. The local administration specifies the year of the first mention of the place in an Astrakhan address book from 1889 as the year of foundation; According to other sources, the actual founding took place in 1910. The place was first called Dolban , apparently after its Kalmyk founder D. Dolbanow.

From 1920 to the 1930s the place was the administrative seat of the Ulus Jandyko-Motschaschny of the Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast, predecessor of the Kalmyk ASSR and today's Republic of Kalmykia . In 1943 the area was annexed to Astrakhan Oblast, and the place received its current name. In 1965 urban-type settlement was granted.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2228
1959	3189
1970	5173
1979	7504
1989	9185
2002	8899
2010	9024

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The main branches of industry are the cultivation of melons, vegetables, animal feed and maize as well as the processing of agricultural products.

Liman is connected to Astrakhan via the regional road R216, which joins the R217 a few kilometers east of the settlement. This connects the village of Olja , located on the far right (western) arm of the Volga, Bakhtemir, a good 20 km east of Liman, with the village a good 20 km north-west and the Senseli train station on the route from Astrakhan via Kislyar to Gudermes in Chechnya and Kisiljurt in Dagestan . To the west of Liman, the R215 continues south; R216 and R215 are also part of the European route 119 , which leads from Moscow via the M6 to Astrakhan along the west coast of the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan .

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. ↑ Liman on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)

Web links

• Rajon Administration website (Russian)