Everything about Atyrau totally explained
Atyrau (; historical name
Guriev) is a city in
Kazakhstan, and the capital of
Atyrau Province. It is located 2700 kilometers west of
Almaty and 350 kilometers east of the Russian city of
Astrakhan. Other transliterations include
Aterau, Atirau, Atyraw, Atırav, Atıraw.
Modern Atyrau is famous for its oil and fish industries. It has 154,100 inhabitants (2007, up from 142,500 (1999 census)), 90% ethnic
Kazakhs (up from 80%), the rest being mostly
Russians and other ethnic groups such as
Tatars and
Ukrainians. Since
October 2006, its mayor is
Salimzhan Naqpayev.
Geography
Atyrau (together with
Aktau) is Kazakhstan's main
harbour city on the
Caspian Sea at the
delta of the
Ural River. Atyrau city is approximately 20 meters below sea level. The city is considered by many to be located both in
Asia and
Europe, as it's divided by the
Ural River, which is often considered the boundary between Europe and Asia.
History
The wooden fort at the mouth of the
Yaik River was founded in
1645 as
Nizhny Yaitzky gorodok (literally,
Lower Yaik Fort) by the Russian trader
Mikhaylo Guryev, a native of
Yaroslavl, who specialized in trade with
Khiva and
Bukhara. The fort was plundered by the
Yaik Cossacks, leading the Guriev family to rebuild it in stone (1647-62).
Tsar Alexis sent a garrison of
Streltsy to protect the fort from Cossack incursions. Despite these efforts, the Cossack rebel
Stepan Razin held the town in 1667 and 1668. The fort gradually lost its strategic significance and was demolished in 1810. Between
1708 and
1992 the city was known as
Guriev.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Atyrau'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://atyrau.totallyexplained.com">Atyrau Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
