Iki-Burul is a village (rural type), the administrative center of the Iki-Burul region and Iki-Burul rural municipal formation of the Republic of Kalmykia. Located in the south-east of Ergeni, 62 kilometers south-east of Elista.
The first information about Iki-Burul is associated
with the organization of the aimag administration in 1880. In 1912,
stationary khurul and school appeared in the khoton.
In 1929,
the collective farm was created. Stalin. On the maps of 1941, the
village is marked under the name Chonyn-Sala. In the summer of 1942,
the village was occupied. On the territory of the Iki-Burul village
council alone, nine people were shot. These are the communists
Khulhachi Mukabenov, Bamba Erdniev and Khulhachi Bavliev, non-party
members Mutl Mulaev, Alesh Boldyrev, Pirlya Badmaev, Gavdzhi
Didyaev, Matsak Ochaev and Erendzhen Mulaev. On December 28, 1943,
the Kalmyk population of the village was deported to Siberia. The
Priyutinsky district of Kalmykia, including the Iki-Burulsky village
council, was transferred to the Stavropol Territory. In May 1944 it
was transferred to the Arzgir district of the region. Obviously, in
the same years the name of Iki-Burul was fixed in the village. On
the map of the USSR in 1946, the settlement is already indicated
under its modern name.
Only after the return of the Kalmyks
from exile in 1957 began an active restoration of the destroyed
national economy. A powerful impetus to the development of the
village was given by the creation in January 1965 of a new district,
the center of which was Iki-Burul. In an extremely short time,
various organizations and enterprises appeared: kommunkhoz, RSU,
communication center, PMK-30, road section, school, hospital, house
of culture, trade and consumer services. Housing was built at an
accelerated pace, the necessary infrastructure was created.
One of the largest agricultural enterprises in the republic was the
Krasny Putilovets state farm, whose central estate was located in
Iki-Burul.
More than four decades ago, the settlement was
supplied with gas, and in the seventies it was connected to the
Yuzhny - Elista water main.
Iki-Burul is located in the southeast of the Ergeninskaya Upland, in the center of the Iki-Burul district. Iki-Burul is located practically on the watershed between the Azov Sea basin and the internal drainage areas of the West Caspian basin district.
Climate type - semiarid (BSk - according to the Köppen climate classification). The average annual air temperature is 9.8 ° C, the amount of precipitation is 315 mm. The driest month is February (precipitation is 15 mm). The wettest is June (44 mm).
In the village, a memorial was erected to fellow
countrymen who died and went missing during the Great Patriotic War,
a monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General,
First Secretary of the Kalmyk Regional Committee of the CPSU B. B.
Gorodovikov, one of the streets bears the name of the front-line
soldier E. S. Shovkanov
In the village, a fitness center, a
clinic, a stupa of Enlightenment, the Gate of Happiness, a statue of
the White Elder, an obelisk to fellow countrymen-liquidators of the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident have been built, a Peace Park
has been laid, many streets are asphalted, landscaping continues.
Stupa of enlightenment and suppression of negativity - erected
in 2004 with the participation of Japanese and South Korean
sponsors. One of the highest stupas in Europe (over 12 meters).
Iki-Burul khurul was built in 1995.