Abay District, Karaganda Region Explained

Abay
Settlement Type:	District
Official Name:	Абай ауданы
Mapsize:	300px
Mapsize1:	150px
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Kazakhstan
Subdivision Type1:	Region
Subdivision Name1:	Karaganda Region
Subdivision Type2:	Administrative center
Subdivision Name2:	Abay
Leader Title:	Akim
Leader Name:	Asanov Baurzhan Konirbaevich^[1]
Established Title:	Founded
Established Date:	1973
Unit Pref:	Imperial
Area Total Km2:	65000
Population As Of:	2019
Population Total:	58 673
Timezone:	East
Utc Offset:	+6

Abay District (Kazakh: Абай ауданы, Kazakh: Abai audany) is a district of Karaganda Region in central Kazakhstan. The administrative center of the district is the town of Abay.^[2] Population:

History

Abay District was formed in March 21, 1973, under the name Michurinsky District, with the administrative center in the settlement of Topar. In 1997 it was renamed 'Abaysky' District and its administrative center was moved to the town of Abay.^[3]

Population

The population is 58,673 (2019)

National composition (at the beginning of 2019):

• Russians – 23,587 people (40.20%)
• Kazakhs – 23,195 people (39.53%)
• Ukrainians – 3168 people (5.40%)
• Tatars – 2155 people (3.67%)
• Germans – 1981 people (3.38%)
• Belarusians – 1047 people (1.78%)
• Bashkirs – 471 people. (0.80%)
• Chechens – 424 people (0.72%)
• Azerbaijanis – 442 people (0.75%)
• Koreans – 293 people (0.50%)
• Poles – 199 people (0.34%)
• Chuvash people – 121 people (0.21%)
• Lithuanians – 159 people (0.27%)
• Moldovans – 157 people (0.27%)
• Uzbeks – 228 people (0.39%)
• Mordva – 100 people (0.17%)
• Greeks – 23 people (0.40%)
• others – 923 people (1.57%)
• Total – 58,673 people (100.00%)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Акимат Абайского района. ru. www.gov.kz.
2. Web site: www.geonames.de Subdivisions of Kazakhstan in local languages . 2008-04-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170443/http://www.geonames.de/coukz-sub.html . 2016-03-03 . dead .
3. Web site: Абайский район. tochka-na-karte.ru.