Burgusta ( Kalm. Burһsta ) is a village in the Tselinny district of Kalmykia , part of the Har-Buluk rural municipality . Located 18 km west of the city of Elista.
| Village | |
| Burgusta | |
|---|---|
| Calm Burһsta | |
| A country |  Russia |
| Subject of the federation | Kalmykia |
| Municipal District | Virgin |
| Rural settlement | Har Buluk Rural Municipality |
| History and Geography | |
| Former names | until 1961 - Lozovoi |
| Center height | 145 m |
| Timezone | UTC + 3 |
| Population | |
| Population | ↗ 202 [1] people ( 2012 ) |
| Nationalities | Russians , Kalmyks , Chechens , etc. |
| Official language | Kalmyk , Russian |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Postcode | 359189 |
| OKATO Code | 85237840002 |
| OKTMO Code | |
Population - 202 [1] people (2012)
Physico-geographical characteristics
The village is located in the southwest of Tselinny district within the Ergeninsky Upland, which is part of the East European Plain. The average height above sea level is 145 m [2] . The terrain is flat. The village stretches from west to east parallel to the channel of the Burgust river, flowing south of it. To the east of the village is the Lozova beam, in which a pond was created. A kilometer to the south-west is the Goose pond [3] .
By road, the distance to the capital of Kalmykia, the city of Elista (city center) is 18 km, to the district center of the village of Troitsk - 30 km, to the administrative center of the rural settlement of the village of Har-Buluk - 15 km [4] . There is an asphalt road to the village from the regional highway Elista - Repair (6 km). (2 km asphalted, 4 km gravel)
According to the Köppen-Geiger classification of climates, the village is located in the continental climate zone with relatively cold winters and hot summers (Dfa index). In the vicinity of the village light chestnut soils of various particle size distribution in combination with solonetzes are common [5] .
Etymology
The name of the settlement is Kalm. Burһsta is translated as “willow”, “the place where willow grows” (from Kalm. Burһsn - willow [6] ). Most likely, the name of the village is derived from the name of the beam in which it is located.
History
Date of establishment not established. It was first marked on the German map of 1941 as a village of a field station [7] . After the eviction of Kalmyk families, the village was called Lozova [8] .
In 1961, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, the village of Lozovoi was renamed Burgusta [9] .
Population
| Population | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2002 [10] | 2010 [11] | 2012 [1] |
| 224 | ↘ 196 | ↗ 202 |
- National composition
According to the 2002 census, the majority of the population of the village were Russians (40%), Kalmyks (27%) and Chechens (27%) [12]
Social Infrastructure
In the village there is a Burgustinskaya primary (incomplete) secondary school (closed since October 2012), a feldsher-midwife station (in the village of Har-buluk) [13] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 General plan of the Verkhneyashkul rural municipal formation of the Republic of Kalmykia . Date of treatment July 5, 2014. Archived July 5, 2014.
- ↑ Burgusta (Tselinny district) | Planet Photos
- ↑ Maps of the General Staff L-38 (A) 1: 100000. The Republic of Kalmykia and the Rostov Region.
- ↑ Distances between settlements are given by the Yandex service. Cards
- ↑ Tubalov A.A. Geoinformation mapping of the soil cover of arid pasture landscapes (Russian) .
- ↑ burhsn
- ↑ 1941 German Map of Elista Environs
- ↑ Error in footnotes ? : Invalid
<ref>; no text is specified for footnotesautogenerated1 - ↑ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of 08.22.1961 "On the renaming of some settlements of the Kalmyk ASSR" // Vedomosti of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR. - 1961. - No. 33. - S. 487.
- ↑ 2002 All-Russian Census
- ↑ All-Russian censuses of 2002 and 2010
- ↑ Koryakov Yu. B. Database “Ethno-Linguistic Composition of Settlements of Russia” .
- ↑ Municipal Budget Institution of Health (inaccessible link)