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Republic of Khakassia (English) Республика Хакасия (Russian) Хакасия Республиказы (Khakas)
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Coat of arms of the Republic of Khakassia	Flag of the Republic of Khakassia
Anthem	none[citation needed]
Political status
Country	Russia
Political status	Republic
Federal district	Siberian[1]
Economic region	East Siberian[2]
Capital	Abakan[citation needed]
Official languages	Russian[3]; Khakas[4]
Statistics
Population (2002 Census)[5]	546,072 inhabitants
- Rank within Russia	71st
- Urban[5]	70.8%
- Rural[5]	29.2%
- Density	9 /km2 (0/sq mi)[6]
Area (as of the 2002 Census)[7]	61,900 km2 (23,899.7 sq mi)
- Rank within Russia	46th
Established	October 20, 1930[citation needed]
License plates	19
ISO 3166-2:RU	RU-KK
Time zone	KRAT/KRAST (UTC+7/+8)
Government (as of October 2008)
Chairman of the Government[8]	Viktor Zimin[9]
Legislature	Supreme Council[10]
Constitution	Constitution of the Republic of Khakassia
Official website
http://www.rhlider.ru

Republic of Khakassia (Russian: Респу́блика Хака́сия; Khakass: Хакасия Республиказы) or Khakasiya (Хака́сия) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic) located in south central Siberia.

Abakan is the administrative centre of Khakassia, and with a population of around 160,000 making it the largest city.

Khakas is a Turkic language with co-official status in the republic.

Administrative divisions

Demographics

• Population: 538,200 (2006 est.)^{[citation needed]}; 546,072 (2002 Census)
• Vital statistics

Source: Russian Federal State Statistics Service]

In 2007 Khakassia recorded a positive natural increase of population for the first time in many years (Although very small, less than +0.01% per year), being one of the 20 Russian regions to have a positive natural population growth rate. [1] [2]

• Ethnic groups

According to the 2002 Russian Census, ethnic Russians make up 80.3% of the republic's population, while ethnic Khakas are only 12.0%. Other groups include ethnic Germans (1.7%), Ukrainians (1.5%), Tatars (0.7%), and a host of smaller groups, each accounting for less than 0.5% of the total population.

History

From the 6th century Khakassia was the core of the old Kyrgyz state. In the thirteenth century, following defeat by the Mongols, the majority of the Kyrgyz people migrated southwest to their current homeland in Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan). Modern Khakassians regard themselves as the descendants of those Kyrgyz who remained in Siberia. Khakassia was incorporated into the Russian state in 1707. In 1727 this was confirmed in a treaty between Russia and China. Tsarist policy was to deport convicted criminals from European Russia to Siberia and prisons were quickly constructed in Khakassia (1707 and 1718). Many prisoners stayed in the area on their release. Many of the indigenous Khakassian people converted to the Russian Orthodox church and were gradually forced to abandon their nomadic way of life. By the time of the Russian Revolution Russians made up approximately half of the population. Under Soviet rule autonomy was granted on 10 October 1930. During the 1920s and 1930s the Soviet authorities resettled an estimated quarter of a million Russians in the region. These were followed by 10,000 Volga Germans deported in World War II. By the time of the 1959 census ethnic Khakassians represented little more than one in ten of the population. Khakassia was given full autonomous republic status in 1991.

Economy

The main industries in the republic are coal mining, ore mining, and timber.

Views of Khakassia

Khakassia view (photo 2000)	Eagle on megalith near village Kazanovka in Republic Khakassia, Russian Federation (photo 2000)	Megalith near village Kazanovka in Republic Khakassia, Russian Federation (photo 2000)	Megalith near village Safronov in Republic Khakassia, Russian Federation (photo 2000)
Megalith near village Safronov in Republic Khakassia, Russian Federation (photo 2000)	Rape valley in Republic Khakassia, Russian Federation (photo 2000)	Sunset near town Askiz in Republic Khakassia, Russian Federation (photo 2000)	Rape valley in Republic Khakassia, Russian Federation (photo 2000)

See also

• List of Chairmen of the Supreme Council of Khakassia
• Music of Khakassia

References

Sources

• Верховный Совет Республики Хакасия. №45 25 мая 1995 г. «Конституция Республики Хакасия», в ред. Конституционного закона №19-ЗРХ от 13 апреля 2007 г. (Supreme Council of the Republic of Khakassia. #45 May 25, 1995 Constitution of the Republic of Khakassia, as amended by the Constitutional Law #19-ZRKh of April 13, 2007. ).

Turkic-speaking regions Federal subjects of Russia shown in italics.     Western Turkic  Azerbaijan1  Bashkortostan  Chuvashia  Northern Cyprus2 Eastern Turkic  Altai Republic  Khakassia  Kyrgyzstan  Gagauzia (Moldova)  Kabardino-Balkaria  Karachay-Cherkessia  Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan)  Sakha Republic  Tuva  Kazakhstan  Tatarstan  Turkey  Turkmenistan  Uzbekistan  Xinjiang (China)  Bayan Olgiy (Mongolia) 1 Includes the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.    2 Recognized only by Turkey; see Cyprus dispute.

From Wikitravel

Khakassia is a region in Western Siberia, which borders Altai Republic to the southwest, Kemerovo Oblast to the west, Krasnoyarsk Krai to the north and east and Tuva to the southeast.

• Abakan — Khakassia's only real "city" and the regional capital
• Abaza — the most important town in southern Khakassia, near the Tuvan border
• Chernogorsk — Second largest population center and location of former gulag
• Sayanogorsk — an extraordinarily polluted alluminum smelting town
• Shira — a village near the salty Lake Shira, home to an old Soviet health spa
• Sorsk

• The Great Salbyk Kurgan — a grandiose burial mound 7 stories high
• Chazy Nature Reserve
• Khakassky Nature Reserve — stone markers atop ancient burial mounds abound in this steppe reserve
• Maly Abakan Nature Reserve

Understand

Khakassia is named for the Khakass people, close relatives of the Kyrgyz, who comprise only about 10% of the population. Khakassia is often called Siberia's Archaeological Mecca for its enormous quantity of important archaeological sites. Khakassia is full of monuments to the cultural history bestowed upon the region by the people who have inhabited and traversed its steppes for 30,000 years. Travelers may take interest in the many kurgans (burial mounds), sacred sites, rock drawings, stone obelisks, ruined cities, ruins of forts (as old as 3,000 years), and near ubiquitous menhirs.

Talk

Everyone understands Russian; while the Khakass minority speaks Khakas, a Turkic language, they are nearly all bilingual.

Get in

You can get to Abakan by rail from the junction at Taishet (Irkutsk Oblast), which is located on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Abakan's small airport is serviced by domestic flights to/from Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Norilsk, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, and Kyzyl.

• Check out the Khakass national holiday "Tum-Payram" (7 days / 6 nights) on June, 28th-04 July, 2006

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

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Alternative spellings

• Khakasia, Khakasiya, Khakassiya

Proper noun

Khakassia

1. A republic of Russia in the central south of the country, with capital Abakan.

Related terms

• Khakass/Khakas
• Khakassian

Translations

See also

• Abakan