Syr-Darja

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Syr-Darja was a Russian administrative division at the beginning of the 20th century, which today is partly in Kazakhstan . It is located in the lowlands of Turan on the name-giving river Syr Darya . The supremacy changed around 1450 from the Timurids to the Uzbeks . After the capture of Tashkent by Russian troops, the General Government of Turkestan was founded on July 11, 1867, with the areas of Semiretschje and Syr-Darja.

In 1870, Alexander Wassiljewitsch von Kaulbars initiated the investigation of the Talas and Tschüi valleys , which lie in the Aulie-Ata and Tschimkent districts. The aim was to determine possible settlement sites for Russian villages. The military governor of the Syr-Darya region received the specific order. The result was that the districts ( uezd ) Aulie-Ata, Tschimkent and Tashkent were particularly suitable for arable farming according to the methods that the Russian farmers already practiced elsewhere, so that immigration movements began soon afterwards. To support the resettlement, several agricultural research rayons were established, and in February 1906 the Syr-Darja rayon was established.

The regional government granted the region the status of " ancestral territory of Turkestan" ( Korennye oblasti Turkestana ), which meant that Russian resettlers were forced to negotiate with the tribes already living there in order to acquire land for money, this trade with nomadic people Straining was evidently easily and cheaply carried out. This regulation was in effect from June 12, 1886 until 1910.

Only 12.5% ​​of the urban population in the area were Russian. In terms of industry, the railway from Krasnovodsk to Tashkent (1899) and Tashkent-Orenburg (1906) was an important development factor for the region. No fewer than 113 factories were counted for 1913.

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