Orgakin

The settlement is located in the northwest of the Iki-Burulsky area within the Yergenin Upland, which is part of the East European Plain, at an altitude of about 110 meters above sea level ^[2] . The terrain is hilly-flat, the slope of the terrain is from south to north towards the Peredny Chimgir girder ( Sharyn-Sala river basin) ^[3] . Complex soil cover: light chestnut solonetsous and solonchak soils and salt licks (automorphic) are common, in the Front Chimgir beam - meadow solonetz (hydromorphic) ^[4]

By road, the distance to the capital of Kalmykia, Elista, is 40 km, to the district center of the village Iki-Burul - 42 km ^[5] . The village has an asphalted access road (5.4 km) from the republican road Elista - Iki-Burul - Cholun-Khamur

Climate

The climate is continental , arid, with hot summer and relatively cold and little snow in winter (according to the Köppen climate classification is semiarid (Bsk index). The average annual air temperature is positive and is + 9.7 ° C, the average temperature of the hottest month of July is + 24.5 ° C, the coldest month of January is 5.4 ° C. Estimated multi-year rainfall is 329 mm. The least amount of precipitation falls in February (the average rainfall is 16 mm). The largest amount is in June (46 mm) ^[2] .

The name of the village comes from the ethnonym "orgakin". The Orgakinsky aimak was not part of the five Burulian clans (“Tavn Buurl”), but represented an independent genus. There are several versions of its occurrence. According to one of them, a cattle breeder named Org, who came to these places with five sons in search of pastures, inhabited the gully. The area was named after him - Orgakin . The sons formed five branches of the Orgaki clan, named after them: Boltahn, Baajihn, Onkahn, Syadiud, Gelngud, whose representatives live in Orgakin today. According to another legend, during the reign of Khan Ayuki , this area had its winter rate. The family that roamed here served the khan and was named “Orgakin”, (“Org” is the rate attached to the rate) ^[6] .

Date of the basis of the settled village is not established. In 1913, the Orgakinovsky savings and loan fund was opened under the aimak board ^[7] . In 1914 an aimak school was opened. After the October Revolution, as a result of the outbreak of the Civil War, schooling was discontinued, children were dismissed into their homes ^[6] . In 1929, the Association for tillage (TOZ) was organized in Orgakin, and in 1930, the collective farm “Chik Haalg” (“True Way”) was established at its base ^[6] .

During the Great Patriotic War, 123 people were called to the front from Orgakin, 73 of whom did not return to their native lands, died and went missing ^[6] .

On December 28, 1943, the Kalmyk population was deported . The settlement, as well as other settlements of the Troitsky ulus of the Kalmyk ASSR, was transferred to the Astrakhan region. In 1944, the Buratinsky state farm was established, in connection with which Russian families from the Stavropol Territory hastily relocated to the village. In 1952, the village as part of the Stepnovsky District was transferred to the Stavropol Territory. Initially, the farm was meat, and since 1952 sheep-breeding ^[6] .

The name of the settlement has been changed several times. On the German map of 1941, the village is marked under the name Shargadyk ^[8] . The post-war map of the USSR in 1946 is listed under the name Orgakinovsky ^[9] . On the American map of the USSR in 1950, the village is already marked under the name Buratinsky ^[10] On the map of 1956 it is indicated as the village of Tsvetnoy ^[11] . The same name is reflected on the administrative map of the Stavropol Territory in 1958. ^[12] In 1961, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the village of Tsvetnoy was renamed Buratinsky ^[13] . The name Orgakin was returned in 1994 ^[6] .

In 1958, after the return of the Kalmyks , two dairy farms (ITF) were organized at the state farm, which sent milk for the population of Elista . Since 1965 - as part of the Iki-Burulsky district . In 1988, a new two-storey school building was built ^[6] .

National composition

According to the 2002 census, the majority of the population of the village were Kalmyks (92%) ^[16]

In the village there are a secondary school, a kindergarten, a house of culture, a general practitioner's office ^[17] .

• Iki-Burulsky district (inaccessible link)