Azovsky Nemetsky National District
The German Nationalrajon Asovo (Russian Азовский немецкий национальный район, Asowski nemezki nazionalny rayon; German and German National Rayon Asovo or German National District Asovo ) is a Raion of the West Siberian Omsk Oblast in Russia, which is inhabited among others by 4500 good Germans.
Geography
The administrative center of the Rajons, Asovo lies about 40 kilometers south-west of Omsk. The population was 14 October 2010 22 925, of which 61.5 % Russians, 19.8% German, 7.9% Kazakhs and Ukrainians 5.1%.
The Rajon is 1400 km ², about the size of the island of Rügen. The population density is thus about 16 inhabitants / km ².
The Rajon comprises 28 villages (of which one with no permanent residents ), which are grouped into eight rural communities ( selskoje posselenije ). The main towns next to the Rajonverwaltungszentrum Asovo are Beryozovka Zwetnopolje, Sosnowka, Alexandrovka, Swonarew Kut and Djowf.
Past and present
From 1893 founded Russian-German resettlers from the European part of the Russian Empire in the area several villages where the German language and culture was passed down in the 1990s and will get stopped.
On October 13, 1991, a referendum whose founding was in the villages, today form the Nationalrajon, held ( German presented at this time in the 16 villages the majority of the population ). With a participation rate of 71 %, 82.7 %, voted for the foundation, which was then decided on 18 December 1991 by the Council of People's Deputies (equivalent Parliament) of Omsk Oblast. As the actual founding date is February 17, 1992, as the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation Ruslan Khasbulatov ratified this decision. As a result of the disintegration of the Soviet Union initially settled also of German descent from the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan ( Kasachstandeutsche ), Kyrgyzstan ( Kirgisistandeutsche ) and Tajikistan, but also from other parts of Siberia in this area has to offer.
In order to give the Germans in Russia a perspective that supported the German Federal Government Nationalrajon Asovo in many ways. Teachers helped with the teaching of German in schools; Young journalists wrote for the Rajonzeitung your newspaper, roads were asphalted, built or modernized plants. Not all resources, however, were really the simple native population benefit, such as the new " uptown " on the edge of Asovo. With the deterioration of the overall economic situation in Russia in the 1990s, therefore, the departure willingness of German descent grew rapidly. Many of the Germans have since left the Nationalrajon towards Germany, so that the proportion of Germans in the population now has approximately halved.
Many who remained not speak German as their main language more, most come from ethnically mixed families or live in such families. However, the administration of the Rajons attaches great importance to maintaining German culture.
Head of Rajonverwaltung ( comparable to a district in Germany ) is Sabelfeld since 2010 Victor. From the founding of the Rajons 1992 to 2010 it was Bruno Reiter, 1996, 2000 and 2005, re-elected.