Messjagutowo (Duwanski)
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Messjagutowo ( Russian Месягутово ; Bashkir Мәсәғүт , Məsəğüt ) is a village (selo) in the Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia with 10,883 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is in the Ural foothills about 170 km as the crow flies northeast of the republic capital Ufa . It is located on the Ai , a left tributary of the Ufa .
Messjagutowo is the administrative center of Duwanski Rajon and the seat of the rural community (selskoje posselenije) Messjagutowski selsowet, which also includes the villages of Abdraschitowo (9 km north-northeast), Novochalilowo (8 km northeast) and Starochalilowo (8 km northeast).
A good half of the inhabitants are Russians , a good quarter are Bashkirs .
history
The place was founded between 1760 and 1775. From the 19th century the seat of a Volost , the village became the administrative center of a canton named after him on October 5, 1922 - one of eight of the 1919 Bashkir ASSR .
With the dissolution of the cantons on August 20, 1930, the Messjagutowski canton was replaced by the Duwanski rajon with its seat in the 30 km northwest of the village of Duwan , to which Messjagutowo was also assigned. In the 1960s, the administrative seat of the Rajon was relocated to Messjagutowo, which was more conveniently located in terms of traffic and was subsequently larger, but the name of the Rajon was retained.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1920 | 3,574 |
1926 | 4,186 |
1970 | 2,902 |
1979 | 6,911 |
1989 | 8,266 |
2002 | 9,761 |
2010 | 10,883 |
Note: census data (1926: the Bashkir ASSR)
traffic
Two regional roads intersect in Messjagutovo: the 80K-004 (Bashkir part of the former R317), which connects Birsk with the M5 Ural federal highway near Satka in the neighboring Chelyabinsk Oblast , and the 80K-007 (part of the former R350), which also branches off the M5 at Kropachovo in the Chelyabinsk Oblast and leads north to the Sverdlovsk Oblast , there via Krasnoufimsk to Achit on the federal trunk road R242 Perm - Yekaterinburg .
At Kropatschowo and Satka ( Suleja settlement ) there are also the nearest train stations on the Samara - Chelyabinsk - Omsk route, a good 70 km south and southeast of Messjagutowo , the original main and today's southern route of the Trans-Siberian Railway .
Web links
- Official website of the Raion Administration (Russian, Bashkir)
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)
- ↑ Messjagutowo on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)