The population of Kokshetau today is 145, 762 people. This is a city in Kazakhstan, which since 1999 is officially considered the administrative center in the Akmola region. How the number of inhabitants in this village has changed, we will tell in this article.
History of the city
The population of Kokshetau is now very high. Never before in the history of the city have so many people lived here. The city was originally founded by Mikhail Kazachinin in 1824. The founder of the city graduated from the Cossack military school in Omsk, and arrived on the territory of modern Kazakhstan to create a military fortification of Kokchetav. In the early years of its existence, Kokshetau was considered a Cossack village.
In the XIX century, the city began to develop quite quickly. In 1824, it was officially recognized as the center of the external district of the Omsk region. After another 30 years, the center of the Siberian Kyrgyz region settled here, and since 1868 Kokshetau became the district center of the Akmola region.
The situation is fundamentally changing after the October Revolution. When Soviet power is established in the okrug, the city is included in the Omsk province. This takes place in 1919, since then it is considered to be its county center.
Kokshetau in the 20th century
At the end of World War II, in 1944, by the decree of the Kazakh SSR, the Kokchetav region was formed, and the city of Kokchetav became a regional capital for a rather long time.
Kokshetau received its current name only after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when it officially left the USSR and now has become part of the territory of Kazakhstan. By a resolution of the Supreme Council of the Republic in 1993, the city was given the modern, now all of us well-known name.
Kokshetau region was decided to abolish in 1997. After that, the city itself automatically lost the honorary status of a regional center.
In 1999, administrative changes in the structure of the North Kazakhstan and Akmola oblasts took effect. After that, Kokshetau became a city of regional significance, the capital of the Akmola region. Regional status has returned to the village.
Location of the settlement
The city of Kokshetau is located on the very shore of Lake Kopana, which is located in the northern part of the Kokshetau Upland. Its foothills surround the city immediately from the west and south.
The total area of the village is about 400 km 2. Traditionally, this includes the village administration of Stantsionny and the Krasnoyarsk rural district. As part of the latter, two more settlements of rural subordination are distinguished - these are Kyzylzhulduz and Krasny Yar.
Population size
The first data on the population of Kokshetau relate to 1897, by then the city had existed for more than 70 years. Almost 5, 000 inhabitants lived in Kokshetau at that time.
The following data, which can be trusted, refer already to the post-war history of the city, when it was already a part of the Soviet Union for several decades. In particular, the population of the city of Kokshetau in 1959 amounted to almost 53, 000 people.
Under the Soviet regime, positive dynamics of the increase in the number of inhabitants in the city were constantly observed. The population of Kokshetau was growing, reaching by 1970 the figure of 80, 500 people. And in 1989, more than 103, 000 local residents already lived here.
In the year of the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991), the population of Kokshetau was 143, 300 inhabitants.
Dynamics in recent years
After the city was deprived of the status of a regional center, the population of Kokshetau declined, some residents decided to leave for more promising areas of Kazakhstan. So, in 1999, a little more than 123, 000 inhabitants remained here.
In the 2000s, there was a positive demographic dynamics, at a slow pace, but the population of the city of Kokshetau in Kazakhstan was growing. By 2008, more than 130, 000 residents had already settled here.
Such positive dynamics remains to this day. What is the population of Kokshetau in Kazakhstan now? According to the latest data, this is 145, 762 people.
According to the authorities of Kokshetau, recently the population of the city has been growing due to migration. The number of marriages is increasing, for example, from 2001 to 2007 it doubled, which favorably affects the birth rate. Thus, the natural population growth per year has grown from 183 people in the early 2000s, to more than 1, 000 people at present.
Until 2001, the balance of migration was invariably negative, but since then the situation has changed radically. In particular, the number of people leaving for Russia and the countries of far and near abroad has decreased.
Thus, among the main factors of population growth, the birthrate is highlighted, which was a consequence of a large number of marriages, and the influx of migrants from other regions of Kazakhstan is also growing. The factors of population decline include mortality and the outflow of residents to the countries of the former Soviet Union and far abroad. Although the last two indicators are decreasing, they still remain quite high - more than 8, 000 people a year.
It is noteworthy that the ethnic specificity of the birth rate is especially high. Most of the babies that are born in Kokshetau are Kazakhs. High mortality among non-Kazakh ethnic groups and mass migration abroad are associated with the fact that among non-Kazakh ethnic groups there is a high proportion of older people, and there are practically no young people here. Therefore, the birth rate among them is so low.
The language environment, which used to be predominantly Russian-speaking, is changing in the city. Now she is becoming bilingual. It is noteworthy that Kokshetau remains today the only regional center in Northern Kazakhstan, in which Kazakhs make up the majority of residents. Now you know how many people are in Kokshetau and how the demographic and migration processes in this city are formed.
National composition
For 2018, the majority of Kokshetau residents are Kazakhs. There are more than 90, 000 people, which makes up 57% of the total population. The second place in this rating is occupied by Russians - almost 48, 000 of our compatriots live here on a permanent basis. This is almost 30% of the total population.
As you can see, the ethnic composition of the population of Kokshetau can be described as mixed. The influence of the Russian diaspora is quite strong and very noticeable.
Among representatives of other nationalities it is necessary to distinguish Ukrainians (almost 3% of them), more than 2% of the inhabitants are Tatars, more than 1% of Kokshetau residents are Germans, Poles, Ingush. Less than 1% of the city’s residents are the diasporas of Belarusians, Koreans, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, Bashkirs, Moldavians, Maris, Chechens, Udmurts and Mordovians.
The level of education
If in previous years, teaching in most educational institutions was conducted exclusively in Russian, then recently the situation has begun to change. In Kokshetau, the majority of the population are Kazakhs, so a bilingual environment is being increasingly formed and developed. Now, as a rule, there is an opportunity to receive education, both in Russian and in Kazakh.
The largest institution of higher education in the city is Kokshetau State University, which bears the name of Shokan Ualikhanov. This is a famous historian, scientist, ethnographer and traveler who lived in the 19th century. The university was founded in 1996 as a result of the merger of the Pedagogical and Agricultural Institute, and a branch of the Karaganda Polytechnic Institute also joined them.
Those who want to get higher education in Kokshetau can also apply to the Humanitarian Technical Academy (as the former Institute of Management and Economics is now called), as well as to the Kokshe Academy (this is the former Kokshetau University) and Abay Myrzakhmetov University, perhaps the youngest institution of higher education education founded in the city only in the year 2000.
In the middle link, against the background of a large number of secondary schools, a specialized boarding school stands out, which positions itself as an educational institution for gifted children. In recent years, this boarding school is officially called the Kazakh-Turkish Lyceum.
Climate
The climate in the city can be attributed to sharply continental. The average annual temperature is +3 degrees, frosty and little snow in winter, and dry and hot in summer.
The absolute temperature maximum is recorded in July and August, when the thermometer reads above 41 degrees, the absolute minimum occurs in February, when frosts start to -48 degrees in Kokshetau.
The average temperature in the summer is about 20 degrees, and in winter about -15.
