Tatarsk, Novosibirsk Oblast

Tatarsk (Russian Татарск ) is a city in the western Siberian Oblast Novosibirsk ( Russia) with 24 217 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the south of the West Siberian lowlands, south of the Wassjuganje and on the northwestern edge of the Barabasteppe about 450 km west of the Oblasthauptstadt Novosibirsk.

The city is the Tatarsk Oblast administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

In the area of the present town existed since about 1790, the village, which was later called Staraya Tatarka, after living here Siberian Tatars ( " Baraba Tatars ").

In the 1890s, the Trans-Siberian Railway was passed through the area and in this section the West Siberian Omsk Novonikolayevsk opened (Novosibirsk today ) in 1896. To set up the station here was a settlement named Stanzionny, which simply means station settlement.

1911 village and settlement were combined and given as the station name Tatarskaya. From here we pushed ahead in a row to build a branch line to open up the Kulunda steppes in the direction of the newly founded town ( from 1917 city) Slavgorod, which went into operation in 1914 and was extended in the following years.

1925, the city charter was granted under the present name.

Population Development

Note: Census data (1926-1979 rounded)

Culture and sights

The city has a museum of local history.

Economy and infrastructure

In Tatarsk there are plants of mechanical engineering and railway workshops.

Tatarsk is located on the Trans-Siberian Railway ( station name Tatarskaya; kilometer in 2879 from Moscow), from a cross-connection to the central Siberian Railway, which crossed in Karassuk, after Slavgorod and the western continuation of the South Siberian railroad that crossed in Kulunda, branches off here. The continuation of this route to the former Turksib achieved near Rubtsovsk, has now been shut down after only a few years of operation.

While the previous highway M51 Chelyabinsk - Novosibirsk Novosibirsk about 25 kilometers north of Tatarsk led over a long stretches entirely new route between Omsk and Novosibirsk was opened a few years ago, the Tatarsk bypasses a few kilometers south.