Comrat ( ro, Comrat, ; gag, Komrat,

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

and bg, Комрат, Komrat) is a city and municipality in

Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The List of states ...

and the capital of the autonomous region of Gagauzia. It is located in the south of the country, on the

Ialpug The Ialpug ( ro, Râul Ialpug, uk, Ялпуг) is a river that crosses Moldova and the Odessa Oblast of Ukraine. It rises in the vicinity of the village Tomai, Leova District), flows in the south direction in parallel with the Prut, Cimișlia Di ...

River. In 2014, Comrat's population was 20,113, of which the vast majority are

Gagauzians The Gagauz ( gag, Gagauzlar) are a Turkic people living mostly in southern Moldova (Gagauzia, Taraclia District, Basarabeasca District) and southwestern Ukraine (Budjak). Gagauz are mostly Eastern Orthodox Christians. The term Gagauz is also o ...

History

Comrat was first settled as early as 1443, with other sources claiming it was founded in 1789. Nevertheless, the settlement was sparsely populated until the new russian government issued a decree in 1819 to resettle the region with

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and other nationalities from across the

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.http://aboutmoldova.md/ro/view_free.php?id=365 (in Romanian) In 1906, the village revolted against the Russian authorities and proclaimed the autonomous (but not independent)

Comrat Republic The Comrat Republic ( gag, Κομράτ Ρεσπυβλικάσι, italics=no, ; ro, Republica de la Comrat; russian: Комратская республика, Komratskaya respublika) was an autonomous republic established in the village of C ...

.The village received

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in 1952. During the time when the town was part of

Moldavian SSR The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic ( ro, Republica Sovietică Socialistă Moldovenească, Moldovan Cyrillic: ) was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union which existed from 1940 to 1991. The republic was formed on 2 August 194 ...

, Comrat's industry was geared toward the production of

butter Butter is a dairy product made from the fat and protein components of churned cream. It is a semi-solid emulsion at room temperature, consisting of approximately 80% butterfat. It is used at room temperature as a spread, melted as a condiment ...

wine Wine is an alcoholic drink typically made from fermented grapes. Yeast consumes the sugar in the grapes and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Different varieties of grapes and strains of yeasts are m ...

, and

rug Rug or RUG may refer to: * Rug, or carpet, a textile floor covering * Rug, slang for a toupée * Ghent University (''Rijksunversiteit Gent'', or RUG) * Really Useful Group, or RUG, a company set up by Andrew Lloyd Webber * Rugby railway station, N ...

s, the latter ornated with

Moldavia Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and former principality in Centr ...

n motifs. The

Comrat State University ro, Universitatea de Stat din Comratrussian: Комратский государственный университет , image_name = Universitatea de Stat din Comrat.png , image_size = 150px , image_alt ...

was established in 2002.

Population

*1989: 25,800 (official census) *1991: 27,500 (estimate) *1996: 27,400 (estimate) *2004: 23,429 (official census) *2006: 22,369 (estimate) *2011: 24,135 (estimate) *2014: 20,113 (official census)

Economy

Comrat is situated in the southern wine zone of Moldova. It is known for production of red wine and muscat. In Comrat and its suburbs there are about 10 wineries. Food production is very developed in the city. Comrat is a home for food processing factories, alcohol production, and an oil processing plant (the first and only one in Moldova). There is also such economic agents as a ferro-concrete factory, furniture productions,

wood processing Wood processing is an engineering discipline in the wood industry comprising the production of forest products, such as pulp and paper, construction materials, and tall oil. Paper engineering is a subfield of wood processing. The major wood pro ...

, production of plastic windows and doors, cattle butcheries, and transport companies.

Wineries

Comrat Wines - the oldest winery located in the south of

Republic of Moldova A republic () is a " state in which power rests with the people or their representatives; specifically a state without a monarchy" and also a "government, or system of government, of such a state." Previously, especially in the 17th and 18th ...

. Aur-Vin is a

Moldovan wine Moldova has a well-established wine industry. With a production of around 2 million hectolitres of wine (as of 2018), it is the 11th largest European wine-producing country. Moldova has a vineyard area of of which are used for commercial produ ...

producer from Comrat. This factory takes part of the Moldovan wine producer Dionis Club.

Notable people

Petar Draganov Pyotr Danilovich Draganov (russian: Пётр Данилович Драганов; bg, Петър Драганов; mk, Петар Драганов; – February 7, 1928) was a Russian philologist and slavist. Biography Draganov was born in Ko ...

(1857 in Komrat - 1928) Russian philologist and

Slavist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...

Reuven Shari Reuven Shari ( he, ראובן שרי, 7 April 1903 – 6 July 1989) was a Russian-born Israeli politician. Biography Born Reuven Shraibman in Comrat in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire (now in Moldova), Shari received a traditiona ...

(1903 in Comrat – 1989) was a Russian-born Israeli politician *

Alexandru Bârlădeanu Alexandru Bârlădeanu (or ''Bîrlădeanu''; 25 January 1911 – 13 November 1997) was a Romanian Marxian economist and statesman who was prominent during the communist regime until being sidelined in 1968. In his later years, following the collap ...

(1911 in Comrat – 1997) a Romanian

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who was prominent during the Communist regime, sidelined in 1968 *

Sorana Gurian Sorana Gurian (born Sara Gurfinchel, October 18, 1913 – June 10, 1956) was a Romanian writer, journalist, and translator who wrote both in Romanian and in French. Born in the Russian Empire, in Comrat, Bessarabia, she lost both of her parents w ...

(1913 in Comrat – 1956) a writer, journalist, and translator, emigrated to Israel and France * Anatoliy Blashku (born 1944 in Komrat) was the Minister of Industry of

Transnistria Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester riv ...

, a Moldovan who moved to

Tiraspol Tiraspol or Tirișpolea ( ro, Tiraspol, Moldovan Cyrillic: Тираспол, ; russian: Тира́споль, ; uk, Тирасполь, Tyraspol') is the capital of Transnistria (''de facto''), a breakaway state of Moldova, where it is the th ...

as a teenager *

Alexandru Stoianoglo Alexandr Stoianoglo (born 3 June 1967 in Comrat) is a Moldovan politician. Biography He was a member of the Parliament of Moldova in 2009-2014 and has been Prosecutor General of Moldova since 2019. On 5 October 2021, he was arrested under a ...

(born 1967 in Comrat) a Moldovan politician and member of the

Parliament of Moldova The Parliament of the Republic of Moldova is the supreme representative body of the Republic of Moldova, the only state legislative authority, being a unicameral structure composed of 101 elected MPs on lists, for a period of 4 years. Parliamen ...

since 2009. *

Irina Vlah Irina Vlah (born 26 February 1974) is a Moldovan politician. She served as member of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova from 2005 to 2009 and from 2014 to 2015. Since 15 April 2015 she has been the Governor (''Başkan'') of the Autonomous ...

(born 1974 in Comrat) a Moldovan politician, Governor (Başkan) of the

Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia Gagauzia or Gagauz-Yeri, or ; ro, Găgăuzia; russian: Гагаузия, Gagauziya officially the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia; ro, Unitatea Teritorială Autonomă Găgăuzia, ''UTAG''; russian: Автономное территор ...

Igor Cobileanski Igor Cobileanski (born 24 February 1974) is a Moldovan film director born in Comrat (then USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia f ...

(born 1974 in Comrat) a Moldovan film director * Mihai Cojusea (born 1978 in Comrat) a Moldavian football striker who plays for CF Gagauziya * Alexander Romanov (born 1990 in Comrat) a Moldavian UFC heavyweight fighter

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Comrat is twinned with: *

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region,

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. * Pendik,

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region,

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; *

Hendek Hendek is a town and a district of Sakarya Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. The municipality was founded in 1907. The mayor of the city is Ali İnci ( AKP). Notable natives * Gaffar Okkan (1952–2001), assassinated police chief * Sü ...

; *

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; * Kucukkuyu,

; * Isparta,

; *

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; * Tatlısu,

; *

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region

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; *

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; *

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; * Bolhrad,

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;

Geography

Climate

Comrat has a

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...

(''Dfb,'' bordering on ''Dfa''), characterized by warm summers and cool, drier winters with snow. Winter lows are often below . In summer, the average maximum temperature is approximately . The average annual

precipitation In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravitational pull from clouds. The main forms of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel and hail. ...

is relatively low.

Gallery

Исполком Гагаузии.jpg, The Executive Committee of Gagauzia Центральная площадь Комрата.jpg, Central Square Центральный парк Комрата.jpg, Central Park Comrat State University.jpg,

Дом культуры в Комрате.jpg, House of Culture Altin_palas.jpg, Hotel "Altyn Palace" ТЦ "Комрат-Сити".jpg, Shopping center "Comrat-City"

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Cities and towns in Moldova Municipalities of Moldova Bendersky Uyezd Tighina County (Romania) Ținutul Nistru Gagauzia 1789 establishments in Europe