Tsagan-Usn

Initially, the Tsagan Usn tract was a vast floodplain lowland, the end section of the Burata river beam. Component kalm. A caen "white" in the title indicates the color shade of the estuaries due to the abundance of feather grass.

The date of establishment is not established A presumably settled village, like many other settlements in Kalmykia, emerged in the early 1920s as part of a policy of transition to a sedentary lifestyle. In 1925–26, a complex of school buildings (dormitory, dining room, club, bakery, laundry, bathhouse, storage and household buildings, a house for teachers) were built at the expense of local residents of Uvshiev Talty and Khumykov Bory. Initially, teaching was conducted in Russian . From 1936-38, instruction began in the Kalmyk language ^[4] .

During the Great Patriotic War, the village was briefly occupied (in 1942). Fascists school with all the buildings was destroyed and burned. On December 28, 1943, the population of the village was deported on a national basis - Kalmyks . Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet on 27.12. 1943 "On the liquidation of the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the formation of the Astrakhan region within the RSFSR", as well as other settlements of the Chernozemelsky ulus of Kalmykia, the village was included in the Astrakhan region (since 1952 as part of the Stavropol Territory ), renamed Belovodny .

In 1956, the Kalmyks began to return to the village. In 1957, on the basis of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 09.01. 1957 "On the formation of the Kalmyk Autonomous Region within the RSFSR" the village was returned to Kalmykia. In the same years, the school reopened. On August 22, 1961, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR approved the return of the historical name Tsagan-Usn ^[5] , which was carried out by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kalmyk ASSR . In 1964, a typical primary school building was built ^[4] .

In May 1978, the Tsagan-Usn state farm was established ^[5] . In 1978, an eight-year school was established on the basis of an elementary school. In 1993, the school was transformed into secondary ^[4] .

The settlement is located in the south of the Yashkul district , within the Caspian lowland , which is part of the East European Plain . The settlement is located below the world ocean level. The average height is 9 below sea level ^[1] . The terrain is flat. To the north-east, south and south-west of the village there are several nameless reservoirs ^[6] , formed as a result of the functioning of the Black Earth Irrigation-irrigation system .

By road, the distance to the capital of Kalmykia , Elista, is 110 km, to the district center of Yashkul village - 20 km ^[7] . To the village there is an asphalted access road from the regional road Yashkul - Komsomolsky - Artesian (9.4 km).

According to the Köppen-Geiger climate classification, the type of climate is semi - arid . The average annual air temperature is 10.2 ° C, the amount of precipitation is 261 mm ^[1] . In the environs of the settlement, they are distributed by solonets in a complex with brown desert-steppe solonets soils ^[8] .

In the late 1980s in the village, the population of the village was about 540 people ^[9] .

National composition

According to the results of the 2002 census, the majority of the population of the village were Kalmyks (63%) ^[11]

The village has a shop, post office, house of culture and a library. Secondary education residents of the village receive in Tsagan-Usn secondary school. Medical care of the residents is provided by the feldsher-midwife station and the Yashkul central regional hospital located in the village of Yashkul ^[12] .

The village is electrified and gasified. There are no centralized water supply and drainage systems ^[12] .