Toretam (formerly Tyura-Tam , Kaz. Turetam ) is a village in the Karmakshy district of the Kyzylorda region of Kazakhstan . The administrative center and the only settlement of the Toretam rural district. The KATO code is 434663100 [1] .
| Village | |
| Toretam | |
|---|---|
| kaz. Tөretam | |
 | |
| A country |  Kazakhstan |
| Region | Kyzylorda Region |
| Rural area | Karmakshinsky |
| Rural district | Toretamsky |
| History and Geography | |
| Based | 1906 |
| Former names | Tura-Tam |
| Timezone | UTC + 5 |
| Population | |
| Population | ▲ 9,548 people ( 2009 ) |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | +7 72437 |
| Postcode | 120513 |
| Car code | 11 (formerly N) |
| CATO Code | 434663100 |
Toretam railway station (until December 2017 was called Tyuratam) on the Orenburg - Tashkent line (built approximately in 1906 ), which was significantly developed in 1955 , with the beginning of the creation of the Baikonur training ground - it was here that building materials and other loads for the training ground arrived in large quantities, there is access to the internal railway network of the landfill . The Arys I - Kandagach railway is double-track, broad-gauge, diesel traction. 1–2 km north of the village is the Aralsk – Zhosaly – Kyzylorda automobile road, which has number M-32 ( Samara – Shymkent ).
Toretam is a suburb of Baikonur , to which the village adjoins from the north. The city is separated from the village by a reinforced concrete wall with two checkpoints. Many residents of the village work in Baikonur.
The territory of the Baikonur cosmodrome is located north of Toretam, therefore, in international satellite directories, the Baikonur cosmodrome is called "Tyuratam Missile and Space Complex" (TTMTR) - named after the village of Toretam (formerly Tyuratam).
The Syr Darya River flows from east to west, 2 km south of the village.
There are three comprehensive schools in the village. Two mosques , one of them was built in the late 1990s, the second, “Zharimbet ata” - in 2011.
7 km southwest of Toretam is Krainy Airport, which is referred to as Tyuratam or Tyuratam 1 in western historical and geographical sources .
History
The name of the railway station and the village is associated with the name of Sheikh Tore-baba of the genus Tore (descendants of Genghisides ), whose grave is located in an old cemetery located on a hill near the river, near the foot of the modern TV tower of the city of Baikonur . In the late 1990s, a red brick building was erected on the site of a collapsed round raw construction in terms of raw construction. The plot of the shrine revered by the locals, who turned out to be behind the barbed wire of a sensitive facility, was used in Chingiz Aitmatov ’s short story “The Buranny Stop” .
Population
In 1999, the population of the village was 5976 people (3073 men and 2903 women) [2] . According to the 2009 census , 9548 people lived in the village (4929 men and 4619 women) [2] .
Notes
- ↑ CATO base . Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on statistics. Archived March 10, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 Results of the 2009 National Census of the Republic of Kazakhstan . Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on statistics. Archived February 27, 2013.
Links
- Archival satellite image of Turatam. 1966 year. (inaccessible link)