Bayanaul (Kazakh: Баянауыл) is a settlement in Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan. It is the capital of Bayanaul District and the administrative center of the Bayanaul rural district (KATO code - 553630100).[1] Population: 5,893 (2009 Census results);[2] 5,998 (1999 Census results).[2][3]
History
The village of Bayan-Aul was founded in 1826 by Siberian Cossacks. The first ataman of the village was appointed in 1834 as the head of the Bayanaul district - Nikolai Ilyich Potanin, the father of the future famous geographer, ethnographer, scientist and traveler Grigory Potanin.
In 1833, by order of the government, the Bayanaul external district was formed as part of the Omsk region. Shon Yedigin was elected senior sultan in the district.
In 1838, the district was abolished, the territory became part of the Semipalatinsk region.
^"База КАТО". Агентство Республики Казахстан по статистике. Archived from the original on 2013-09-27.
^ ab"Население Республики Казахстан" [Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan] (in Russian). Департамент социальной и демографической статистики. Retrieved 8 December 2013.