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Kharabali is a city (since 1974) in the Astrakhan region of Russia, the administrative center of the Kharabalinsky district and the municipal formation "City of Kharabali".
The ruins of Sarai-Batu near the village of Selitrennoye and an
open-air museum;
Khosheutovsky khurul in the village of Rechnoye,
which is 71 km from Kharabali;
City mosque;
Victory Square.
Jubilee Park.
Komsomolsky park.
Children's art school.
Children's and youth sports school (dilapidated state).
The city is located on the left bank of the Ashuluk
River, 142 km north of Astrakhan.
The ruins of Saray-Batu,
the former capital of the Golden Horde, an archaeological site of
the 13th century, are located 40 km south of the city. 70 km south
of the city - Khosheutovsky Khurul (Kalmyk Buddhist monastery), an
architectural monument of the 19th century.
There are three routes of the city fixed-route taxi: “Kharabali -
pos. Rattlesnake" (the route is served by buses PAZ-3205 MUE
"Universal"), No. 1 "8th quarter - Center - 8th quarter" (served by
minibuses Ford Transit IP Sadoyan Yu. M.) and No. 4 "Station 2nd lift -
secondary school No. 3 "(served by minibuses Ford Transit IP Sadoyan Yu.
M.).
The city is crossed by the road Astrakhan - Akhtubinsk -
Volgograd. Kharabalinskaya railway station on the Upper Baskunchak -
Astrakhan line.
The
village of Kharabali was founded in 1789 on a high hill by fugitive
peasants from the Voronezh, Kursk and Tambov provinces.
The
village of Kharabali was founded in 1789 by the Decree of Empress
Catherine II on the resettlement of peasants in the village of
Chernavtsy, Ostrogozhsky district, Voronezh province. The name of
one of the city districts - "Chernavka" remains in the memory of the
townspeople.
There are several versions of the origin of the
name. One by one, the name of the village comes from the hillock,
which once divided the village into two parts. "Kharabali" is
translated from Kalmyk as "black hillock". According to another, the
name comes from the name of the Kazakh aul Karabayly, located on
this place. The Kazakhs still call this area this way. The name
"Kharabali" comes from the river "Kharabalyk". "Kharaba + lyk" in
translation from Turkic means "Kharaba" ruin or collapse, with the
help of word formations suffix "+ lyk" nouns are derived from the
stem of nouns and adjectives, that is, "place of collapse, ruin".
In 1876, using folk funds, craftsmen from Moscow, with the
participation of local craftsmen, began to build a two-story, brick,
five-domed church. In 1889, the church opened its doors to
parishioners.
The famous Kharabalin gardens brought wide
popularity to the village.
In 1926, the first electric light
bulb appeared in Kharabaly, and radioactivation of the village
began. In 1927 the first collective farm "Iskra" was organized in
the village. In 1930, the Novy Put collective farm and the Red
Catchers fishing collective farm were founded. In 1932, construction
of a cannery began in Kharabaly, and in July 1936 it was put into
operation.
In the period from the 30s to the beginning of the
40s, secondary school No. 5, the building of the district executive
committee, a party office, a village club, a cinema for 450 seats, a
hospital with 35 beds were built, a park was planted in the center,
a canteen, a library, an industrial complex worked. food processing
plant.
At the end of the 1940s, the mass landscaping of
Kharabali began. In the mid-1950s, when laying the first water
supply, fruit trees were planted on the streets.
In 1974 the
village of Kharabali was transformed into a city of regional
subordination. It becomes the center of agriculture and industry.
food industry (poultry farm "Kharabalinskaya");
woodworking
(furniture) and forestry (industrial timber, firewood, reforestation);
construction industry (building materials).
A temperate continental climate prevails. Summers are warm and long,
while winters are mild and short.
The average annual air
temperature is 10.7 °C
Average annual rainfall - 420 mm
Relative
humidity - 59.1%
Average wind speed - 6.5 m/s