Zagan Aman

settlement Zagan Aman Цаган Аман ( Russian ) Цаһан Амн ( Kalmyk ) Federal district Southern Russia republic Kalmykia Rajon Justinski Founded 1798 Earlier names Burunny (1952-1961) Zagan-Aman Settlement since 1992 population 6027 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 5  m below sea level Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84744 Post Code 359300 License Plate 08 OKATO 85 246 860 001 Website tsaganaman-smo.ru Geographical location Coordinates 47 ° 34 '  N , 46 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '45 "  N , 46 ° 43' 15"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kalmykia

Zagan Aman ( Russian Цага́н Ама́н ; Kalmyk Цаһан Амн ) is a settlement (possjolok) in the Republic of Kalmykia in Russia with 6027 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 230 km as the crow flies northeast of the republic capital Elista on the right bank of the right arm of the Volga Verkhnekopanowskaya Voloschka, which is separated from the wider left main arm of the river by the Verkhnekopanowski Island. Zagan Aman is located in the 10 km wide strip that forms the only access of the Republic of Kalmykia to the Volga and also a small area on its left bank opposite the place.

Zagan Aman is the administrative center of Justinski Rajons as well as the seat of the rural community Zaganamanskoje selskoje posselenije, to which the settlement (possjolok) Zagan Bulg, located a good 3 km east on the opposite, left bank of the Volga, belongs. About four fifths of the population are Kalmyks , the rest are predominantly ethnic Russians .

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  Churul (Buddhist monastery) in Zagan Aman, before 1917 (destroyed in 1935)

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  Entrance from the highway R22 to Zagan Aman

history

The place was first mentioned in 1818; The year of foundation is stated in the document as 1798, when a first Buddhist monastery (Churul) was built on the left bank of the Volga in the area of ​​what is now the municipality of Zagan Bulg . It was later moved to its current location on the right bank of the Volga. From the middle of the 19th century at the latest, it was run as the administrative seat and main camp for Ulus Bagazochurowski of the nomadic Kalmyks. The settlement was located on the territory of the specially administered so-called Kalmyzkaja steppe of the Astrakhan governorate . The place name literally stands for “White Shore” in Kalmyk, also interpreted as “Happy Shore”.

After the establishment of the Kalmyk Autonomous Oblast in 1920, Zagan Aman came to the newly formed Privolschki ulus with its seat in Kalmyzki Bazaar (from 1927 Kanukowsk, from 1944 Privolschski, since 1965 incorporated into Astrakhan as one of the northwestern districts on the right bank of the Volga ). As early as February 14, 1923, the Priwolschski ulus was dissolved again and the previous structure restored, but in 1930 in other borders, again with Zagan Aman, re-expelled. After the dissolution of the Kalmuck ASSR and the deportation of the entire Kalmuck population at the end of 1943, the area was attached to the newly formed Astrakhan Oblast , and the place itself was renamed Burunny in 1952 .

After the restoration of Kalmyk autonomy on January 12, 1957 (again as Kalmuck ASSR from 1958), the place was assigned to the Justinski rajon, which had existed since 1938, and its administrative seat was relocated to Burunny on March 22, 1957 (the eponymous settlement Justa is a good 60 km southwest ). On March 22, 1961, the historical place name was restored. From 1965 to 1992 the place had the status of an urban-type settlement , under the Russian spelling Zagan-Aman (with a hyphen).

Population development

year	Residents
1859	220
1959	2100
1970	4662
1979	5569
1989	6545
2002	5926
2010	6027

Note: census data from 1959

traffic

The federal highway R22 Kaspi , which connects Kashira near Moscow via Volgograd with Astrakhan, runs past the town to the west . In first south-west regional road 85K-3 branches in Zagan Aman, which runs through the eastern part of the Republic, among other things, the former Rajonzentrum Justa and after some 150 km in the settlement Utta the federal highway R216 of Astrakhan on Elista to Stavropol reached .

The nearest train station by road is about 170 km southeast in Astrakhan; The stations on the Volgograd / Saratov  - Astrakhan railway line, only about 20 km away on the left of the Volga, cannot be reached directly by land, as there are no bridges or regular ferry connections across the river between Volgograd and Astrakhan.

Web links

Commons : Zagan Aman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the rural community (Russian)

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)