Qorasuv

Qorasuv ( Қорасув ) ( usbek. )

Qorasuv ( Uzbek for black water, according to the outdated Cyrillic alphabet Қорасув, also transcribed as Korasuw or Korassuw; Russian Карасу / Karasu Karasu or ) is a border town in the far eastern Uzbekistan on the border with Kyrgyzstan with 27,453 inhabitants ( calculated for 2009).

Geography

The city is, which forms the state border by the Shaxrixonsoy (Russian Шахрихансай / Schachrichansai ) there, separated from the subsequent on the Kyrgyz side of town Karasuu. The Shaxrixonsoy is a channeled left tributary of the Karadarja ( Qoradaryo ).

Qorasuv belongs to the district ( Tuman ) Qorgontepa the province of Andijan.

History

The place was originally named Karasu ( Russified form of the Turkic name) and made at the time of the Russian Empire a unit with today's Kyrgyz part.

The formation of the Uzbek and Kyrgyz SSR (initially as ASSR ) in the 1920s, the town was divided administratively. The Uzbek part was renamed in the 1930s after the Soviet party and Kliment Voroshilov in Staatsfünktionär Woroschilowo. 1958, he was again renamed ( Possjolok ) imeni Iljitscha, Russian settlement of Ilyich (after Lenin's patronymic ), later simplified to Ilyich. By 1979, the population rose to 14,701, and in 1980 received the settlement under the name Iljitschowsk the city status. In 1989, the city had 19,454 inhabitants.

Since 1992, the city again bears the original name in the Uzbek form. In May 2005, an Qorasuv riots, as many Uzbeks were trying to flee to Kyrgyzstan due to the unrest in the nearby city Andijon. The state border is secured by the Uzbek side by a barbed wire fence.