Coat of arms Flag selsoviet 12 Area 896 km² | Administrative center selo of Alnashi Rural localities 81 Founded 15 July 1929 | |
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Alnashsky District (Russian: Ална́шский райо́н; Udmurt: Алнаш ёрос) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the twenty-five in the Udmurt Republic, Russia. It is located in the south of the republic. The area of the district is 896 square kilometers (346 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Alnashi.
Contents
- Map of Alnashsky District Udmurt Republic Russia
- Geographic information
- Relief and Soil
- Climate
- Hydrology
- History
- Population
- Ethnic composition
- Jewish community
- Sights
- References
Map of Alnashsky District, Udmurt Republic, Russia
Geographic information
The district is bordered by Grakhovsky District of Udmurtia in the west, Mozhginsky District of Udmurtia in the north, also by Agryzsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan in the east and by Mendeleevsky District of Tatarstan in the south-west. The area of the district is 896 square kilometers.
Relief and Soil
The district is located in the Mozhga Hills that is a weak-high plain with calm character of relief. At the preagriculrural time in the vegetative cover fir-spruce forests with broad-leaved trees (lime tree, maple, oak, elm, common hazel) were dominated. At the present time second aspen-birchen and lime forests are dominated. The woodiness - 18,0 %.
The district is dominated by Alfisols and sod-calcareous loamy soils that have high natural fertility and are some of the best soils in Udmurtia.
Climate
The average annual temperature varies between + 2,3-2,6 °C. The average temperature in January is -14,0-14,2 °C, in July is + 18,9-19,2 °C. The amount of active temperature is 2000-2100 °C. The frost-free period lasts about 130–135 days per year, the annual rainfall - 490–530 mm.
Hydrology
The district is located in the basin of the Kama River, the southern boundary of the district runs along the banks of the Nizhnekamsk reservoir. On the territory of Alnashsky District there are rivers - Varzi, Toyma, Alnashka, Varali, Varaga, Utchanka and many others. The average annual runoff of rivers is 4.5-5.0 l / s*km², the density of the river network - 0.58 km / km². At the beginning of 2009, the water fund of the district is 677 hectares.
History
The Alnashsky District was established July 15, 1929 from 15 village Soviets (Selsoviets, or village councils) of the Alnashskaya volost and the Bolshekib'inskaya volost of the Mozhginsky Uezd. At the time in the structure of the district there were included Azamatovsky, Alnashsky, Asanovsky, Bayteryakovsky, Bolshekib'insky, Varzi-Yatchinsky, Voznesensky, Gondyrevsky, Ivanovsky, Kadikovsky, Kucherenovsky, Muvazhinsky, Piseevsky, Staroutchansky, Tutashevsky, Udmurt-Toymobashsky and Chemoshur-Kuyuksky village Soviets. In 1932, in the structure of the district from Tatarstan the Staroyum'insky village Soviet was additionally passed. In 1937 during the formation of the Pychassky District some village Soviets of the Alnashsky District were passed into its composition. In 1954, there was the consolidation of village Soviets, their number reduced to 10. In 1963, the district was abolished and its territory became a part of the Mozhginsky District, but in 1965 the Alnashsky District was restored.
The modern structure of the district was formed as a result of the municipal reform in 2006. At the moment, the district consists of 12 rural settlements.
Population
Population: 20,403 (2010 Census); 22,258 (2002 Census); 21,931 (1989 Census). The population of Alnashi accounts for 30.9% of the district's total population. The average population density - 22.77 pers. / km². The district occupies the 11th place in the population and 4th place in the density among the municipal districts of Udmurtia. On January 1, 2013, from 81 Inhabited localities of the district 7 had no permanent population.
In 2011, the birth rate was 18,3 ‰, mortality rate - 15,4 ‰, the natural population growth - 2,9 ‰. The population of the district continues to decline due to migration loss (the difference between the number of departures and arrivals on the territory of the district), in 2011 the migration population loss amounted to 511 people. The total number of pensioners in the district is 5440 persons, youth from 18 to 29 years - 5490 persons, voters - 15900 persons.
Ethnic composition
As a result of the 2002 census, among the district population Udmurts turned out 81.7%, Russians - 12.2%, Tatars - 3.4%, Mari - 2.1%. The Alnashsky District is one of 16 rural district of the Udmurt Republic where Udmurts make up the majority, as well as one of the four districts of compact residence of Mari people. Besides, the Alnashsky District along with the Grakhovsky District and the Kiznersky District is the residence territory of the Kryashens in the rural area of Udmurtia.
Jewish community
In the district fairly large the rural Jewish community was located, whose members spoke the Alnashic subdialect of the Udmurt Idiom of Yiddish (see Jews from Udmurtia and Tatarstan), and also many Jews spoke Udmurt and/or Tatar languages. The Ashkenazi Jews in the Alnashsky District first appeared in the early 20th century (in the 1910s and 1920s). In the 1940–1960s the maximum number of the Jews in the district was 25–35 humans. The primary residences of the Jews there were three settlements: the village (selo) of Alnashi, the village (selo) of Varzi-Yatchi and the hamlet (derevnya) of Garga. The Alnashsky District's Jewry celebrated all Jewish holydays except for Tu Bishvat. The most revered feasts were Passover (Pesach), Simchat Torah (Simches To(y)reh), Yom Kippur (Yom Kipper), Hanukkah and Purim. The Udmurts of the district often mistook the Jews for Russians but sometimes for russianized Germans or Udmurts. In the 1980s, the Jews practically left Alnashsky District however in 2015 it was fixed inhabitation of a few Jews in the district as members of interethnic (Jewish-udmurt) families.
Besides, the Alnashsky District occasionally attended the Subbotniks (Hebrew/Yiddish gerim; Russian subbotniki literally "sabbatarians", novyye zhidy literally "new Jews", zhidovstvuyushchiye literally "Judaizers", iudeystvuyushchiye literally "Judaizers", zhidovery literally "Jewbelievers"; Russian endoethnonym gery to Hebrew ger). The Subbotniks came for a recreation (Varzi-Yatchi sanatorium) or on working affairs.
Sights
On the territory of Alnashsky District, there are the following types of historic, natural and cultural monuments:
1) Protected areas of the Alnashsky District:
2) Monuments of architecture:
3) Monuments of folk architecture:
4) Historic Burials:
5) Sacral territories of the three pagan religious formation of southern udmurts (Lud-vyzhy, Bulda-vyzhy, Byd'z'ym kua-vyzhy) from near the village (derevnya) of Kuzebaevo where until now the village inhabitants collectively celebrates udmurt pagan holidays (without interruptions since the beginning of the pagan practices on those territories). This feature of the village makes of its a unique place because it is the rare case of preservation of ethnic religion in Europe. The Jews called the village of Kuzebaevo וואָסיאַשןדאָרף vös'ašndorf [vəˈsʲaʃ(ə)ndɔʁf] < Yiddish vös'ašn- "priestly, sacerdotal (the word was used only in relation to udmurt pagan priests)" < udmurt vös'as' "pagan priest in udmurt ethnic religion" + Yiddish dorf "village".