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Yaña Kenär
Yaña Kenär ( tt-Cyrl, Яңа Кенәр, translit=Yaña Kenär, russian: Новый Кинер) is a rural locality (a selo) in Arsky District, Tatarstan. The population was 869 as of 2010. Geography Yaña Kenär is located 40 km north of Arça, district's administrative centre, and 103 km northeast of Qazan, republic's capital, by road. History The village was established in 17th century; its name derives from the word ''yaña ''(new) and the oecnonym ''Kenär''. From 18th to the first half of the 19th centuries village's residents belonged to the social estate of state peasants. By the beginning of the twentieth century, village had 4 mosques, 5 windmills, 3 blacksmith shops and 6 small shops. Before the creation of the Tatar ASSR in 1920 was a part of Qazan Uyezd of Qazan Governorate. Since 1920 was a part of Arça Canton; after the creation of districts in Tatar ASSR (Tatarstan) in Tuqay (1930–1935), Tuqay (former Qızıl Yul) (1935–1963) and Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones and shares Borders of Russia, land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than List of countries and territories by land borders, any other country but China. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's ninth-most populous country and List of European countries by population, Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city is Moscow, the List of European cities by population within city limits, largest city entirely within E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Estates In The Russian Empire
Social estates in the Russian Empire were denoted by the term soslovie (sosloviye), which approximately corresponds to the notion of the estate of the realm. The system of ''sosloviyes'' was a peculiar system of social groups in the history of the Russian Empire. In Russian language the terms "сословие" and "состояние" (in the meaning of the civil/legal estate) were used interchangeably. Estates The Code of the Law of the Russian Empire of 1832, vol. 9, "Laws about Estates" (Законы о состояниях) defined four major estates: dvoryans (nobility), clergy, urban dwellers and rural dwellers (peasants). The two former estates were non-taxable, the two latter were taxable estates (податные сословия), i.e., which had to pay the personal tax. Within these, more detailed categories were recognized: # Nobility was subdivided into Hereditary nobility (russian: потомственное дворянство) which was transferred to wife, chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuqay District (1930–1963)
Tukayevsky District or Tuqay District (russian: Тукаевский район; tt, Тукай районы) was a district ('' raion'') of the Tatar ASSR. It was established as Kzyl-Yulsky District on February 10, 1930. Its administrative center was the village ('' selo'') of Yaña Kenär. It was renamed on July 18, 1956. On October 12, 1959, the territory of abolished Atninsky District Atninsky District (russian: Атни́нский райо́н; tt-Cyrl, Әтнә районы, ''Ätnä rayonı'') is a territorial administrative unit and municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The distri ... were transferred to the Tukaevsky district and its administrative center was moved to Bolshaya Atnya. On February 1, 1963, the district was abolished and its territory was transferred to Arsky District. References {{Reflist History of Tatarstan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ätnä District
Atninsky District (russian: Атни́нский райо́н; tt-Cyrl, Әтнә районы, ''Ätnä rayonı'') is a territorial administrative unit and municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The district is located in the northwest of the republic. The territory of the district includes 47 settlements, which are united into 12 rural settlements. As of 2020, people reside in the district. The administrative center is the village of Bolshaya Atnya, founded during the period of the Khanate of Kazan. Geography The total area of the district is 681.4 km². It borders the Arsky and Vysokogorsky Districts of Tatarstan and the Republic of Mari El (Morkinsky District). The relief is a hilly plain with prevailing heights of 160–180 meters. Forests cover 3.9% of the district area. The largest river is Ashit while the largest tributaries are Urtemka (16 km), Shashi (15 km), and Ura (13 km). Protected natural areas includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arça Canton
Arsk Canton (known as Kazan Canton at the time of its foundation) was an administrative division (a сanton) of the Tatar ASSR in 1920–;1930. Its area was 7,500 km; population: 375,000. In 1926, 59.2% of the population were Tatars, 37.5%—Russians, and 2.7%—Udmurts. The administrative center of the canton was the town of Arsk. In 1929, the canton consisted of fifteen volosts. There were 404 schools in the canton as early as in 1927. Economics A woodworking, metal-working, food and glass industry, Paratsky shipyard, as well as homecraft were developed in the canton. Rye, barley, oats, wheat and potatoes were cultivated, cattle and horses were bred. Division In 1930, during the raionization of the Tatar ASSR The Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Татарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан Автономияле Совет Соци ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qazan Governorate
The Kazan Governorate (russian: Каза́нская губе́рния; tt-Cyrl, Казан губернасы; cv, Хусан кӗперниӗ; mhr, Озаҥ губерний), or the Government of Kazan, was a governorate (a '' guberniya'') of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR from 1708–1920, with its seat in the city of Kazan. History Kazan Governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established on , 1708, by Tsar Peter the Great's edictУказ об учреждении губерний и о росписании к ним городов on the lands of the s of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qazan Uyezd
Kazansky Uyezd (''Каза́нский уе́зд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Kazan Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Kazan. Demographics At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kazansky Uyezd had a population of 350,719. Of these, 54.5% spoke Russian, 41.8% Tatar, 1.6% Mari, 0.4% Polish, 0.4% Udmurt, 0.4% Yiddish, 0.3% German, 0.2% Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ... and 0.2% Chuvash as their native language. Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показа ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
The Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Татарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан Автономияле Совет Социалистик Республикасы), abbreviated as Tatar ASSR (russian: Татарская АССР; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан АССР) or TASSR (russian: ТАССР; tt-Cyrl, ТАССР) (1920–1990), was an autonomous republic of the Russian SFSR. The resolution for its creation was signed on 27 May 1920 and the republic was proclaimed on 25 June 1920. Kazan served as its capital. The territory of the TASSR was a part of Kazan, Simbirsk, and Ufa Governorates ('' guberniyas'') of the Imperial Russia before the October Revolution of 1917. *1920: Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic *1990: Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic *1992: Republic of Tatarstan Notable people *Gabdulkhay Akhatov - professor and Turkologist * Sofia Gub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windmills
A windmill is a structure that converts wind power into rotational energy using vanes called windmill sail, sails or blades, specifically to mill (grinding), mill grain (gristmills), but the term is also extended to windpumps, wind turbines, and other applications, in some parts of the English speaking world. The term wind engine is sometimes used to describe such devices. Windmills were used throughout the High Middle Ages, high medieval and early modern periods; the horizontal or panemone windmill first appeared in Persia during the 9th century, and the vertical windmill first appeared in northwestern Europe in the 12th century. Regarded as an icon of Culture of the Netherlands, Dutch culture, there are approximately 1,000 windmills in the Netherlands today. Forerunners Wind-powered machines may have been known earlier, but there is no clear evidence of windmills before the 9th century. Hero of Alexandria (Heron) in first-century Roman Egypt described what appears to be a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosque
A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, including outdoor courtyards. The first mosques were simple places of prayer for Muslims, and may have been open spaces rather than buildings. In the first stage of Islamic architecture, 650-750 CE, early mosques comprised open and closed covered spaces enclosed by walls, often with minarets from which calls to prayer were issued. Mosque buildings typically contain an ornamental niche ('' mihrab'') set into the wall that indicates the direction of Mecca (''qiblah''), Wudu, ablution facilities. The pulpit (''minbar''), from which the Friday (jumu'ah) sermon (''khutba'') is delivered, was in earlier times characteristic of the central city mosque, but has since become common in smaller mosques. Mosques typically have Islam and gender se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Serf
State serfs or state peasants (russian: Государственные крестьяне, gosudarstvennye krestiane) were a special social estate (class) of peasantry in 18th–19th century Russia, the number of which in some periods reached half of the agricultural population. In contrast to private serfs, state serfs were considered personally free, although attached to the land. They were liberated in 1866. History The state peasants were created by decrees of Peter I and applied to population who were involved in land cultivation and agriculture: various peasant classes, single homesteaders (servant people on the border area adjoining the wild steppe), the non-Russian peoples of the Volga, and the Ural regions. The number of state peasants increased due to several factors: the confiscation of church lands (huge estates of the Russian Orthodox Church) by Catherine II, additional conquered territories (the Baltic States, the Right-Bank Ukraine, Belarus, Crimea, the Caucasus), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oeconym
An oeconym, also econym, or oikonym (from el, οἶκος, , 'house, dwelling' and , , 'name') is a specific type of toponym that designates a proper name of a house or any other residential building, and in the broader sense, the term also refers to the proper name of any inhabited settlement, like village, town or city.Gornostay, Tatiana, & Inguna Skadiņa. 2009. Pattern-Based English-Latvian Toponym Translation. ''Proceedings of the 17th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics NODALIDA'', May 14–16, 2009, Odense, Denmark, NEALT Proceedings Series, 4: 41–47. Within the toponomastic classification, main types of oeconyms (econyms, oikonyms) are: ''astionyms'' (proper names of towns or cities), and ''comonyms'' (proper names of villages). Other terminology Sometimes the term ''ecodomonym'' is used to refer specifically to a building as an inhabited place.Room, Adrian. 1996. ''An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies.'' Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. Compare a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
