Sherbakulsky District (russian: Шербаку́льский райо́н; kk, Шарбақкөл ауданы, ) is an administrative
[Law #467-OZ] and municipal
[Law #548-OZ] district (
raion
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), one of the
thirty-two in
Omsk Oblast
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,
Russia
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. It is located in the southwest of the
oblast
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on the border with
Kazakhstan
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. The area of the district is . Its
administrative center
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is the
urban locality (a
work settlement) of
Sherbakul.
Population: 21,342 (
2010 Census);
The population of Sherbakul accounts for 32.7% of the district's total population.
History
The territory of what is now Sherbakulsky District was a part of the
Kazakh Khanate
The Kazakh Khanate ( kk, Қазақ Хандығы, , ), in eastern sources known as Ulus of the Kazakhs, Ulus of Jochi, Yurt of Urus, was a Kazakh state in Central Asia, successor of the Golden Horde existing from the 15th to 19th century, ...
until 1718, when, after the death of
Tauke Khan
Abū'l-Fath Tauke Mūhammad bin Salqām-Jahangīr Khan ( kk, Әбілфат Тәуке Мұхаммед бин Салқам-Жаһанғыр хан, , romanized: ''Äbılfat Täuke Mūhammed bin Salqam-Jahanğyr han'') (1635 – 1715, r. 1680 – ...
, the khanate broke apart and
Cossack
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units moving south from Russia occupied the area. In the 1890s, these former Kazakh grazing lands were opened for settlement. In 1893, the first settlement was established at
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Altai Krai
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* Borisovka, Uglovsky District, Altai Krai, a '' selo'' in Laptevsky Selsov ...
by Russian and Ukrainian settlers. In 1895, German settlers established
Krasnoyarka, and in 1896—
Maksimovka.
Modern Sherbakulsky District was created on October 14, 1924 as part of the
Soviet
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reorganization of the oblast structure under the State Division of Soviet Middle Asian Republics.
Administrative and municipal divisions
As an
administrative division
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, the district is divided into one
work settlement (
Sherbakul) and nine
rural okrugs (Alexandrovsky, Babezhsky, Borisovsky, Izyumovsky, Krasnoyarsky, Kutuzovsky, Maksimovsky, Slavyansky, and Yekaterinoslavsky) comprising thirty-seven rural localities.
As a
municipal division, the district is incorporated as Sherbakulsky Municipal District and divided into one urban settlement (within the borders of the work settlement of Sherbakul) and nine rural settlements (which correspond to the rural okrugs).
Notable people
*
Zhumabay Shayakhmetov (1902–1966), First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR 1946–1954
*
Baltash Tursymbaev (1946–2022), Kazakh diplomat and politician
References
Notes
Sources
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Districts of Omsk Oblast