Shatta (Ketchenerovsky district)

The name of the village arose from a variety of Kalm well . Shatta Hoodg . Such a well was equipped with a ladder ( Kalm. Shat ^[2] ) in order to make it convenient to go down and clean the bottom of sand and formed sludge ^[3]

The area where the modern village is located attracted the Kalmyks of the Baga-Chonosov, Asmudov, Barunovsky and Khapchinov clans that wandered around it. Initially, the hapchins were part of the Erketenevsky ulus .

In 1880, a group of hapchins, numbering about 411 cabins, migrated to Maloderbetovsky ulus , becoming subordinate to the Derbet noyons. The resettled people became part of the Abganerovsky aimak and became the sixth clan division ^[4] .

The date of foundation of the settled settlement is not established. Most likely, the sedentary village arose after the establishment of Soviet power. Prior to deportation, the territory of the directly modern village was taken over by the eightieth military stud farm of the Rostov Horse Trust ^[4] .

Until the 1950s, the village was called Shokta ^{[5] [6]} . Subsequently, it was renamed the village of Severnoe with the placement of the farm of the Troitsky state farm here ^[7] .

The name of the Shatt , obviously, was assigned after the restoration of the Kalmyk ASSR. In 1964, a state farm named after the 50th anniversary of the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (now the State Unitary Enterprise "Shatta") was organized in Shatta ^[8] .

The village is located in the south of the Ketchenerovsky district within the Priergeninsky plain , which is part of the Caspian lowland , at an altitude of 3 m above sea level ^[7] . The terrain is flat. To the east of the village passes the Gashun Canal , which belongs to the Chernozemly irrigation and watering system . 1 km north of the village is the mouth of the Kegult River, which is lost in the steppe ^[9] .

By road, the distance to the capital of Kalmykia, the city of Elista is 120 km, to the district center of the village of Ketchener - 84 km. The nearest settlement is the village of Nizovy , located 5.7 km north of the Shatt ^[10] . There is a rubble-covered entrance to the village from the M6 federal highway (41 km)

According to the Köppen – Geiger climate classification, the village is located in the semi - arid climate zone (Bsk) ^[7] . In the vicinity of the village, solonetzes are common in combination with brown desert-steppe solonetzic soils ^[11] .

In the village, as well as throughout Kalmykia , Moscow time operates.

National composition

According to the 2002 census, the majority of the population of the village were Kalmyks (86%) ^[14]

The largest employer is the Shatta breeding farm ^[15] .

The village has several shops, a village club and a library. Medical services for the residents of the village are provided by the office of a general practitioner and the Ketchener central district hospital. The nearest emergency department is located in Ketchner . Residents of the village receive secondary education at the Shatta secondary school, there is a kindergarten, branches of an art school and a youth sports school ^[16] .

The village is gasified (in 2011 ^[17] ). Shatta water supply is provided from artesian wells. There is no centralized water disposal in the village. Drainage is provided through the use of cesspools. A collection system for the organization of the collection of municipal solid waste is absent ^[16] .

As a rule, a local cemetery is used to bury the dead.