Tara (Russia)
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Tara
Тара
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List of cities in Russia |
Tara ( Russian Тара ) is a city in the western Siberian Oblast Omsk ( Russia ) with 27,318 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the southern part of the West Siberian lowlands , just under 300 kilometers north of the oblast capital, Omsk . After this megacity , Tara is the second largest town in the oblast. Tara is located on the left bank of the Irtysh , into which the river Tara of the same name flows 25 kilometers southeast of the city.
Tara has been the administrative center of the Tara Rajon of the same name since 1943 .
history
Tara was founded in 1594 by Cossacks as an ostrog on the southern border of what was then the Russian sphere of influence in western Siberia, at the confluence of the Tara and the Irtysh, and named after the river. It developed into an important center of trade with Djungaria and parts of Turkestan . The place consisting of wooden buildings burned down repeatedly (1629, 1658, 1669). After the last fire, the city was moved downstream to its current location.
With the establishment of the Omsk fortress and the construction of the Siberian tract significantly further south in the first half of the 18th century, Tara lost its strategic and economic importance, but in 1782 received city rights as the administrative center of a Ujesd in the then Tobolsk governorate .
The Trans-Siberian Railway was also laid several hundred kilometers south of Tara at the end of the 19th century; But thanks to the discovery of oil in the area, the city did not sink into complete insignificance in the 20th century.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 7.223 |
1926 | 10,345 |
1939 | 15,372 |
1959 | 22,646 |
1970 | 22,358 |
1979 | 23,248 |
1989 | 26,152 |
2002 | 26,888 |
2010 | 27,318 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
Tara is one of the smaller West Siberian cities in which the historical building fabric is relatively well preserved. The buildings include the Savior Cathedral ( Спасский кафедральный собор / Spasski kafedralny sobor ) from 1754 to 1776, wooden and stone merchant houses and mansions from the 18th to the beginning of the 20th century, including the house of the merchant Nerpin, the oldest preserved stone building in Oblast Oblast (now Medical College), as well as the former state liquor warehouses. Part of the old fortress wall was rebuilt.
There has been a local history museum in Tara since 1932, today in the former home of the Wolkow merchant family, and since 1987 a picture gallery in the wooden house of the merchant Khomyakov from the end of the 19th century.
The city has an indoor Olimp ice rink and a drama theater named after Mikhail Ulyanov .
Economy and Infrastructure
In Tara exists a small refinery where the oil from the at-near Krapiwinskoje is processed oil field. There are also companies in the electronics, food and light industries.
Regional road 52K-4 leads to Tara and branches off the federal highway R402 Tyumen - Omsk in Krasny Yar not far from Omsk . As 52K-17 it continues to the left of the Irtysh via Znamenskoye and Tewris to Ust-Ishim ; further expansion to Tobolsk in the neighboring Tyumen Oblast is planned. The 52K-32 leads to Sedelnikowo over an Irtysh road bridge near Tara that was opened in 2000 .
Personalities
- Mikhail Ulyanov (1927–2007), actor, spent childhood and youth in Tara
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)
- ↑ Local history museum Tara at museum.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Gemäldegalerie Tara at museum.ru (Russian)
Web links
- Book on the history of Tara, electronic version (Russian)
- Private website about Tara (Russian)