Alexeyevsky District, Republic of Tatarstan

Alexeyevsky District (Russian: Алексе́евский райо́н; Tatar: Cyrillic Алексеевск районы, Latin Alekseyevsk rayonı) is a territorial administrative unit and municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. It is located in the central part of the region, on the left bank of the Kama river. The administrative center of the district is the urban-type settlement of Alekseevskoe.[5]

For other places with the same name, see Alexeyevsky District.
Alexeyevsky District

Алексеевский район
District
Other transcription(s)
 • TatarАлексеевск районы
Kama River in Alexeyevsky District
Flag
Coat of arms
Location of Alexeyevsky District in the Republic of Tatarstan
Coordinates: 55°09′N 50°08′E
CountryRussia
Federal subjectRepublic of Tatarstan
Administrative centerAlexeyevskoye
Area
 • Total2,080.1 km2 (803.1 sq mi)
Population
 • Total26,236
 • Estimate 
(2018)[2]
25,546 (−2.6%)
 • Density13/km2 (33/sq mi)
 • Urban
42.8%
 • Rural
57.2%
Administrative structure
 • Inhabited localities1 Urban-type settlements[3], 58 Rural localities
Municipal structure
 • Municipally incorporated asAlexeyevsky Municipal District
 • Municipal divisions1 Urban settlements, 19 Rural settlements
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK [4])
OKTMO ID92606000
Websitehttp://alekseevskiy.tatarstan.ru/

The district was formed on August 10, 1930. In 1963, it was abolished and its lands transferred to the Chistopolsky District. The district was reestablished as an administrative unit on March 4, 1964.[5]

Geography

The Alekseevsky district encompasses 2074.4 km². The district is located in the central part of the Republic of Tatarstan along the Kazan - Orenburg federal highway. The administrative center of the region is the urban-type settlement of Alekseevskoe which is located on the shore of the Kuybyshev Reservoir,108 km south-east of Kazan.[5]

The district borders the Chistopolsky, Aksubaevsky, Nurlatsky, Alkeyvsky and Spassky districts of the republic. It shares a water border with Laishevsky and Rybno-Slobodsky districts in Kuybyshev Reservoir.[5]

Coat of arms and flag

The coat of arms and flag of the Alekseevsky district was approved by the Council of the Alekseevsky municipal district on May 10, 2006. The imagery was developed by the Heraldic Council under the President of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the Union of heraldry of Russia. It is based on the regimental coat of arms of the Bilyar Landmilitsky Regiment from 1747.[6]

A purple elk is depicted in the center of the coat of arms in honor of the city of Bilär, the military-political center of Volga Bulgaria which had been located on the territory of the region since the Middle Ages. Purple symbolizes power and nobility, the elk - freedom and dignity. A broken golden spruce signifies the Zakamskaya zasechnaya line that stood on the lands of the modern region in the 17th century and which included the village of Bilyarsk, founded in 1654 as a fortress.[6]

History
Sculpture of Almış
Archaeological findings
Remains of the fresco of the Archangel Michael Church in the village of Sakony

The center of the district is located on the territory of the former village of Alekseevskoye which was founded at the beginning of the 18th century. At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries, the wool spinning, plaster and furnace industries developed in the village.[5]

Until 1920, the territories of the region belonged to the Laishevsky, Spassky and Chistopol districts. Beginning in 1920, cantons replaced districts in the administrative system of the region. The district first appeared as an independent administrative entity of the TASSR on August 10, 1930. In 1963, it was abolished and its territory was transferred to the Chistopol region until the district was reconstituted on March 4, 1964.[5]

From 2005 to 2018, the head of the district was Vladimir Konstantinovich Kozonkov. Subsequently this position would be taken on by Sergey Anatolyevich Demidov. The District Executive Committee is headed by Oleg Gainullin.[7][8]

Population

As of 2020, 24,969 people lived in the district. About 60% of the district population are Russians, Tatars constitute 30%, Chuvash - 6% and representatives of other ethnicities make up another 4%. 46.43% of the district's population live in urban settlements.[9][10]

Municipal-territorial structure

There are 59 settlements in the Alekseevsky district which make up the constituent parts of one urban and 19 rural settlements.[9]

Economy

State of the District Economy

As of 2020, the Alekseevsky district occupied 34th place (out of 43) in the rankings of quality of life in the municipalities of Tatarstan. In 2019, the volume of investment per person in fixed assets in the district amounted to 16,314 rubles and the average salary in the region was 30,586 rubles (lower than the republic average of 37,418 rubles).[11][12]

Agriculture plays an important role in the district economy. The total area of farmland in the district is 126.6 thousand hectares. The main branches of agriculture in the district are dairy and beef cattle breeding, and the production of grain and fodder crops such as spring wheat, winter rye, barley, peas and oats. As for the division of arable land use in the Alekseevsky district, more than 40% is allocated for grain crops, 36% for fodder crops and 9% for industrial crops. Private family farms are an actively developing sector, for example, by 2015, 21 farms had been built in the region, producing 788 tons of milk and 54 tons of meat per year.[13][14]

Industry in the region is represented mainly by light industries and manufacturers of building materials. Among large regional companies operating in the district are the Alekseevsky Milk Canning Factory, the Alekseevskaya Factory of Artistic Weaving, the Alekseevskdorstroy and Alekseevskaya Ceramics. The latter attracted 75 million rubles of investment in 2014. These funds were used to reconstruct a workshop for the production of facing bricks and the installation of new drying chambers and kilns.[13][7]

The gross regional product of the district amounted to 8.1 billion rubles in 2016 . According to statistics from 2017, 117 small businesses and 458 entrepreneurs were registered in the district. In the same year, the registered unemployment rate was 0.56%.[15]

Transport

The R-239 "Kazan - Orenburg - border with Kazakhstan" highway passes through the territory of the district, crossing the Kama river on a bridge near the village of Alekseevskoye and exiting the bridge to the east towards the city of Chistopol. The highway 16K-0191 Alekseevskoe - Vysoky Kolok leads westward from the bridge to Samara, from which the road 16K-0196 Levashevo - Tukai goes on to Bolgar. The “Alekseevskoe - Bilyarsk - Mamykovo” road to Nurlat leads from the district center to the south. A section of highway heading south from the bridge belongs to the transport corridor "Western Europe - Western China" although construction of this section is still ongoing.[5]

Ecology
Kama river

There are four objects belonging to the natural reserve fund of regional significance in the Alekseevsky district:[5]

  • Lake "Proval" is a natural monument in the village of Khoteevka. The lake was formed in 1895 as a sinkhole – the water washed the voids under the village houses and they fell to a depth of 20 m.
  • The state hunting zakaznik "Bilyarsky", established in 1967 to restore and preserve hunting resources in the ecological-geographical zone of the Trans-Kama region on the territory of the republic.
  • The State nature reserve "Ivanovsky pine forest" with an area of 587 hectares, located on an island in the vicinity of the village of Ivanovsky. 70 bird species have been identified in the reserve, 16 of which are protected species listed in the Red Book of Tatarstan.

Social and Cultural Life
Youth organisation “Selet”

There are 57 educational institutions in the Alekseevsky district. The cultural sphere is represented by libraries, the museum of the native land named after local historian Vitaly Abramov and the Bolshetigan Museum named after Salikh Battal. The newspaper "Zarya" ("Tak") is published in the region in the Russian and Tatar languages.[7]

One of the main attractions of the region is the Bilyarsky Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve, created in 1992 on the basis of preserved buildings in the Bilyarsky settlement - the capital of Volga Bulgaria in the X-XIII centuries. Bilyar itself is a complex of monuments with an area of 800 hectares, which includes fortifications, vast suburbs, necropolises, country estates and more. Since 2013, the museum has been annually holding the Spring Paradise holiday, where creative teams of different nations perform. For more than 10 years, the Ministry of Youth Affairs of Tatarstan has held an annual school forum “Selet” in the reserve [.[16]

References
  1. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  2. "26. Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
  3. The count of urban-type settlements may include the work settlements, the resort settlements, the suburban (dacha) settlements, as well as urban-type settlements proper.
  4. "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  5. Экологический гид 2015, pp. 54–56.
  6. "Герб Алексеевского муниципального района". Геральдика.ру. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  7. "Алексеевский район". TatCenter.ru. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  8. "Козонков Владимир Константинович". Реальное время. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  9. "Численность населения муниципальных образований Республики Татарстан" [Population of municipalities of the Republic of Tatarstan] (PDF). Федеральная служба государственной статистики. 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  10. "Алексеевский район — столица Волжско-Камской Булгарии, церкви в стиле барокко и птицы из Красной книги" [Alekseevsky district - the capital of the Volga-Kama Bulgaria, baroque churches and birds from the Red Book]. Реальное время. August 15, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  11. "Где в Татарстане жить хорошо: рейтинг районов республики по качеству жизни" [Where to live well in Tatarstan: rating of regions of the republic in terms of quality of life]. Inkazan.ru. March 16, 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  12. "Среднемесячная номинальная начисленная заработная плата работников организаций по видам экономической деятельности" [Average monthly nominal accrued wages of employees of organizations by type of economic activity] (PDF). Федеральная служба государственной статистики. 2020. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  13. "Рейтинг «Реального времени»: «Рублевка» сравнялась по эффективности с нефтехимической столицей Татарстана" [Rating of Realnoe Vremya: Rublevka has caught up in efficiency with the petrochemical capital of Tatarstan]. Реальное время. May 5, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  14. "О стратегии социально-экономического развития Алексеевского муниципального района Республики Татарстан на 2016-2021 годы и плановый период до 2030 года" [On the strategy of socio-economic development of the Alekseevsky municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan for 2016-2021 and the planning period until 2030] (PDF). Алексеевский районный совет. July 19, 2016. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  15. "Паспорт муниципального образования «Характеристика уровня социально-экономического развития муниципального образования. Алексеевский муниципальный район» на 30 ноября 2017 года" [Passport of the municipality “Characteristics of the level of socio-economic development of the municipality. Alekseevsky municipal district "as of November 30, 2017]. "Комитет Республики Татарстан по социально-экономическому мониторингу. December 22, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2020.
  16. "В Алексеевском районе откроется международный молодежный форум «Сэлэт»" [International youth forum "Selet" will open in Alekseevsky district]. Татар-Информ. July 3, 2020. Retrieved October 11, 2020.

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