Chaltyr (russian: Чалтырь, hy, Չալթր) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in

Myasnikovsky District Myasnikovsky District (russian: Мяснико́вский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #340-ZS and municipalLaw #182-ZS district (raion), one of the forty-three in Rostov Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The area ...

Rostov Oblast Rostov Oblast ( rus, Росто́вская о́бласть, r=Rostovskaya oblast, p=rɐˈstofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast has an area of and a populati ...

, Russia. Population: It is also the administrative center of

and the largest settlement in the district.

Geography

Chaltyr is situated 11 km west of

Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don ( rus, Ростов-на-Дону, r=Rostov-na-Donu, p=rɐˈstof nə dɐˈnu) is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East Eu ...

. The village of Crimea (with 4,5 thousand inhabitants) directly adjoins Chaltyr from the north. Rivers Mokry Chaltyr and Khavaly flow through the settlement.

History

Chaltyr was founded in 1779 by Armenian settlers from the

Crimea peninsula Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a po ...

, whose real birthplace was the capital of medieval Armenia, the city of Ani. They speak the Nor-Nakhichevan (or Don, Crimean-Ani) dialect of Western Armenian language. Don Armenians still constitute a large part of the population of Chaltyr village and other settlements of Myasnikovsky District. The Church of the Ascension was founded in 1790. In the years 1869 ― 1870, the railroad of Taganrog-Rostov line was being constructed through Mokry Chaltyr khutor. It was built and later maintained also by the local population. At the end of the XIX century, the peasants of Chaltyr village invented a new kind of strong, spring wheat that was called "Chaltyrka".

Places of interest

* Church of the Ascension (Chaltyr), an

Armenian Apostolic , native_name_lang = hy , icon = Armenian Apostolic Church logo.svg , icon_width = 100px , icon_alt = , image = Էջմիածնի_Մայր_Տաճար.jpg , imagewidth = 250px , a ...

church built in the 19th century. * Glory Memorial, a memorial to Soviet soldiers who died in World War II * Museum of local history and ethnography * Chatal-Oba Mounds

References

Rural localities in Rostov Oblast {{RostovOblast-geo-stub