Bolsherechye, Omsk Oblast

Bolscheretschje (Russian Большеречье ) is an urban-type settlement in the Omsk Oblast (Russia) with 11,271 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

• 3.1 Zoo Bolscheretschje

Geography

The settlement is in the southeast of the West Siberian lowlands, some 150 km as the crow northeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Omsk on the left bank of the Irtysh.

Bolscheretschje is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Bolscheretschje.

History

The history of Russian colonization of the area began with the founding of the peasant and Cossack military settlement Takmyzkaja sloboda, about 15 km north of Bolschretschje, the present-day village Takmyk, in 1682. Was Until the establishment of the fortress of Omsk in 1716 by settlers from northern Russia ( Pomorje, Veliky Ustjug, from Messines ) established settlement the southernmost Russian settlement in Irtyschgebiet.

1705/ 06, the wooden fortifications were relocated upriver about the place of the present-day village. In connection with a renovation in 1741, the town was the first time as Bolscherezki Forpost ( " Bolscherezker outpost " ) mentions (of Russian Bolshaya Retschka for Great Brook, one of which opens into the Irtysh here waters). With the establishment of a south running from Omsk defense line along the former border of the Russian Empire to the not yet colonized steppes of present-day Kazakhstan, in the 1750s the city lost its strategic importance and was normal farming village.

In the context of an administrative reform in 1924 Bolscheretschje administrative center of a Rajons. In 1960 she received the present name of the status of an urban-type settlement.

Demographics

Note: from 1959 census data

Culture and sights

In Bolscheretschje is based on a variety of well-preserved, mainly wooden houses and farm buildings from the 19th and early 20th century, the open-air museum Starina Sibirskaja ( "Siberian antiquity " ) emerged.

Since 1959 also comes in a Bolscheretschje Historical and Folk Museum, since 1986 also an art gallery, are shown in changing exhibitions.

In the southern part of the Rajons, about 40 km from Bolscheretschje, lies between the villages Borowjanka, Rostowka and Ingaly the National Archaeological and Natural Park Batakowo in which significant sites of settlements and graves from different eras, particularly the Iron Age Sargat culture. In addition, the park has a rich flora with 395 species of higher plants, including 33 rare or endangered ..

Zoo Bolscheretschje

Exceptional is the existence of zoos in the settlement of the " single village zoos Russia". Established at a school in 1984, the establishment is public since 1987. Today over 100,000 people annually visit the now nine -acre resort with a herd of more than 2000 copies. On display are more than 200 species from around the world, including more than 30 in the "Red List of Threatened Species " recorded as Siberian tigers, Dhole, fishing cat and Przewalski's horse. The zoo also has an aquarium and terrarium plant.

Economy and infrastructure

In Bolscheretschje as the center of an agricultural area, there are companies in the food industry, along with companies in the construction and forestry. Great hopes are placed in tourism development based on the existing sites.

The settlement is located on the regional road R392, the Omsk Tara with Tobolsk in the neighboring Tyumen Oblast. From this one a road branches over Muromcevo on the tare Sedelnikowo from the Ui.

The place has a pier on the Irtysh, also on the passenger ship is operated.