Botakara
Sign in to saveBotakara (), known as "Ulyanovsk" until 1997, is a settlement in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. It is the capital of Bukhar-Zhyrau District and the administrative center of the Botakara rural district (KATO code - 354030100). Population:
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Botakara
- Settlement.other_name
- Ботақара
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Ботақара қорғаны.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Ancient burial ground marker
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Kazakhstan
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Kazakhstan
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Kazakhstan
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Karaganda Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bukhar-Zhyrau District
- Settlement.established_date
- 1826
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2019
- Settlement.population_total
- 5223
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Ботақара
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Bukhar-Zhyrau District
- Population
- 5223
- Capital of
- Bukhar-Zhyrau District
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- postal code
- 100400
- native label
- Ботақара
- inception
- 1901-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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Botakara (), known as "Ulyanovsk" until 1997, is a settlement in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan. It is the capital of Bukhar-Zhyrau District and the administrative center of the Botakara rural district (KATO code - 354030100). Population:
== History == Founded in 1901 as the village of Sannikovskoye by Ukrainian settlers from Kherson, Chernihiv and Tauride provinces. During its existence, it changed its name several times. By decree of the NKVD on November 2, 1920, the village of Sannikovo, Akmola district, was renamed to Trotskoye, and the Sannikovsky volost was renamed to Trotskaya. From 1934 to 1961 the village was called Kolkhoznoe. In 1961, the village was given the status of a workers' settlement and the name Ulyanovsky, which it bore until 1997.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Botakara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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