Mikhailovskoye (Altai region)

Village Mikhailovskoye Михайловское Federal district Siberia region Altai Rajon Mikhailovskoye Founded 1878 Earlier names Mir-Kul, Marsagul (until 1897) Michailowski (195x – 1991) Village since 1991 population 11,020 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 170  m Time zone UTC + 7 Telephone code (+7) 38570 Post Code 658960-658962 License Plate 22nd OKATO 01 227 816 001 Geographical location Coordinates 51 ° 49 '  N , 79 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 49 '0 "  N , 79 ° 43' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Altai region

List of large settlements in Russia

Mikhailovskoye ( Russian: Миха́йловское ) is a large village (selo) in the Altai region ( Russia ) with 11,020 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located in the southwestern part of the Kulunda steppe on the northwestern edge of one of the "ribbon forests " characteristic of the area , elongated pine forest massifs that run parallel over several hundred kilometers in a southwest-northeastern direction . The settlement is about 320 kilometers as the crow flies in a south-westerly direction from the regional capital Barnaul and 25 kilometers from the border with Kazakhstan . To the south of the village, in the midst of the ribbon forest, there are drainage-free depressions with a series of salt lakes , the salts of which are used for the chemical industry, for example at the Malinowoje Osero settlement there .

Mikhailovskoye is the administrative center of the Mikhailovskoye Raion of the same name .

history

The village was founded in 1878 by resettlers from central Russia and initially bore the name Mir-Kul , later Marsagul after a Turkish-speaking toponym . In 1897 it was given its current name in honor of St. Michael , in Russian Michail.

In connection with the establishment of a chemical plant near today's Malinowoje Osero, an independent Rajon was spun off from the territories of the surrounding Rajons in 1941, the administrative center of which was initially the factory settlement 15 km south of Mikhailovskoye. In the 1950s, Mikhailovskoye was given the status of an urban-type settlement like this one , now in the form of the name Mikhailovsky . In the 1960s the district administration was relocated to Mikhailovsky.

Since 1991 the place is again "rural settlement" under the old name form.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	7,085
1970	8,892
1979	9,116
1989	10,696
2002	11,558
2010	11,020

Note: census data

Culture and sights

There is a local museum and a picture gallery in Mikhailovskoye .

Economy and Infrastructure

Located between the reclaimed Kulunda steppe and a large forest massif, Mikhailovskoye is the center of agriculture and forestry.

The place is on the 1943/44 (public transport from 1953) railway line Kulunda –Malinowoje Osero (station name Michailowka-Altaiskaja ; route km 104).

The Rubzowsk – Kulunda – Slavgorod – Karassuk regional road runs through Mikhailovskoye along the Russian-Kazakh border, from which a connection branches off via Volchicha and Rebricha to the regional capital Barnaul.

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. ↑ ^{a b} Mikhailovskoye on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
3. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)
4. ↑ Information on the gallery at museum.ru (Russian)

Web links

• Mikhailovskoye Raion on the Altai Region Administration website (Russian)