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11 unusual facts about Astrakhan


Abu'l-Khayr Khan

Abu'l-Khayr's army pulled back to the steppe, where they defeated two opposing khans near Astrakhan.

Alex Battler

Alex Battler was born in Astrakhan into a family of service-industry workers (his father was a stoker, his mother a saleswoman).

Anthony Jacques Mantle

The local Commissar tore up the official documentation offering a reward for their safe return over the border and then organised for a local schoolteacher to act as translator as they were taken to Astrakhan for questioning.

Artur Kapp

Kapp graduated from the Conservatory in 1900 as a composer and from 1904 until 1920 worked as a music director in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan, then returning to Estonia as a professor and conductor at the Tallinn Conservatory where he counted among his students such future notable Estonian composers as Evald Aav, Edgar Arro, Gustav Ernesaks, Helen Tobias-Duesberg, Riho Päts and Enn Võrk.

August Hirsch

He studied the plague in Astrakhan in 1879 and 1880, and in the latter year wrote a report to his Government.

Caspian Flotilla

On October 13, the Soviets renamed it to the Astrakhan-Caspian Military Flotilla (Астрахано-Каспийская военная флотилия, or Astrakhano-Kaspiyskaya voennaya flotiliya).

Church of Caucasian Albania

In the mid-18th century, the religious life of the Armenian community of Astrakhan was also supervised by the Caucasian Albanian Catholicate.

Dervish Ali Astrakhani

Nevertheless, he started a struggle against pro-Muscovite nobles and placed a Turkish garrison in the capital Haji Tarkhan.

Imeni Diny Nurpeisovoy

The settlement serves a passing loop on the railway connecting Astrakhan and Atyrau.

Most Holy Synod

In 1716 Peter formulated an oath for the bishops-elect of Vologda and Astrakhan and Yavorskii.

Sojuzpatent

Sojuzpatent has offices in Moscow, Astrakhan, Vologda, Kirov, Kostroma, and Novosibirsk; it is the headquarters of the national group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) since its foundation in 1965.


26 Baku Commissars

In route to Astrakhan (held by the Reds), the team of the steamship led by naval officers turned to the city of Petrovsk (Makhachkala) that was held by the White forces.

Aleksey Trubetskoy

Under Tsar Michael's rule Aleksey Trubetskoy was in disfavour with Russia's factual ruler Patriarch Filaret and was appointed to govern distant towns of Tobolsk and Astrakhan.

Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky

Two years later, a Turkmen traveller arrived in Astrakhan and announced to local authorities that the Oxus River, formerly flowing to the Caspian Sea, had been diverted by the Khivans to the Aral Sea in order to extract golden sand from the river waters.

Andrey Kovalchuk

Among his many sculptural compositions are monuments to Peter the Great in Astrakhan, Admiral Fyodor Ushakov (1745–1817) in Moscow, and the outstanding poet and diplomat Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873) in Bryansk and Munich.

Buyan-class corvette

The first ship of her class, the Astrakhan was commissioned on January 2006, and assigned to the Caspian Flotilla.

Caspian Flotilla

In July 1919, the Astrakhan-Caspian Military Flotilla was combined with the Volga Military Flotilla (Волжская военная флотилия, or Volzhskaya voyennaya flotiliya) and renamed to the Volga-Caspian Military Flotilla (Волжско-Каспийская военная флотилия).

Charles Richard Vaughan

With them, he sailed for the Volga in November, was shut out by the ice, and had to spend the winter on the desert island of Kulali, but eventually arrived at Astrakhan in April 1806, reaching England by way of St Petersburg on 11 August 1806.

Ilya Ulyanov

Ilya Ulyanov was born in Astrakhan, to Nikolai Vasilievich Ulyanov (1765—1838) (sometimes as Ulyanin), a port-city tailor and a former serf who came from Sergachsky District, Nizhegorod Governorate and received his freedom from an landowner Stepan Mikhailovich Brekhov; and Anna Alekseyevna Smirnova (1793—1871), a daughter of a rich city-dweller Aleksei Lukianovich Smirnov (a son of Lukian Smirnov who hailed from rich Oirats of Middle Asia).

Ivan Mikhailovich Viskovatyi

Viskovatiy was accused of his alleged intentions to give Novgorod to the Polish king and Astrakhan and Kazan to the Turkish sultan.

Khiva

By the early 17th century, Khiva had become the capital of the Khanate of Khiva, ruled by a branch of the Astrakhans, a Genghisid dynasty.

Maria Maksakova, Sr.

Maria Petrovna Maksakova, Senior (Мария Петровна Максакова, née: Sidorova; April 8, 1902, Astrakhan, Russian Empire – August 11, 1974, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet opera singer (mezzo-soprano), a leading soloist in the Bolshoi Theater (1923-1953), who enjoyed great success in the 1920s and 1930s, in the times often referred to as the Golden Age of the Soviet opera.

Prince Alexey Lvov

Alexey Lvov began his career as a deputy governor of Nizhny Novgorod (1610), Rylsk (1615), Astrakhan (1618–20).

Prozorovsky

During the Muscovite period of Russian history, the most eminent member of the family was Prince Ivan Semyonovich Prozorovsky, a boyar's son and boyar himself, who happened to govern Astrakhan at the time of Stenka Razin's uprising.

Qasim of Astrakhan

Qasim II of Astrakhan (died 1532), ruler of the Khanate of Astrakhan from 1504–1532

Qasim I of Astrakhan (died 1500), ruler of the Khanate of Astrakhan from 1466–1490

Schieder commission

This was intended as only a first step towards establishing the so-called A-A line from Arkhangelsk to Astrakhan (both located in Russia) as Germany's new eastern border.