Wargashi

Urban-type settlement Wargashi Vargashi Federal district Ural Oblast Kurgan Rajon Wargashinsky head Vladimir Ivanov Founded 1924 Urban-type settlement since 1944 population 9254 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 150  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 35233 Post Code 641230 License Plate 45 OKATO 37 206 551 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 22 ′  N , 65 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 22 ′ 15 ″  N , 65 ° 49 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Kurgan Oblast

Wargashi ( Russian Варгаши ) is an urban-type settlement in Kurgan Oblast ( Russia ) with 9254 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located in the southwestern part of the West Siberian lowlands a good 30 kilometers as the crow flies east of the Kurgan Oblast Administrative Center , in the midst of several smaller lakes.

The settlement is the administrative center of the Rajons Wargaschinski .

history

Wargaschi goes back to one of the "outposts" that emerged around 1743 in this area along the border of the Russian Empire at that time to the more southern areas inhabited only by nomadic steppe peoples (contemporary name "Kirghiz") in the form of the Ishim line named after the river . With the shift of the border to the south in the course of the 18th century, Maximowski forpost , named after Lake Maximovskoye, about eight kilometers northeast of today's settlement, lost its military significance. "State" (ie not serf ) farmers were allowed to settle and founded a village initially known as Wargaschowa (after a family name). It was later moved to another lake, about three kilometers southeast of the current settlement.

At the end of the 19th century, the Trans-Siberian Railway on its west-Siberian section from Chelyabinsk to Omsk was brought by, and a station settlement was built around the station that had opened there. This soon surpassed the original village in terms of population and importance and became independent in 1924 with the establishment of a Rajon as its administrative seat. In 1944 urban-type settlement was granted.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	2570
1959	7282
1970	8973
1979	9809
1989	9889
2002	9953
2010	9254

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

The settlement and the surrounding Rajon are agricultural, mainly characterized by the cultivation of grain; forestry is also carried out. There is a factory for fire fighting equipment and vehicles in Wargashi.

Wargaschi is a station on the southern branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway (km 2398 from Moscow ). The M51 trunk road from Chelyabinsk to Novosibirsk , part of the transcontinental road link , runs north of the settlement .

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} Wargaschi on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)

Web links

• Wargashi Raion Official Website (Russian)
• Wargashi Raion on the Oblast Administration website (Russian)