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The settlement of Khan Ordasy.

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Khan Ordasy (Kaz. Khan Ordasy, until February 18, 2006 Urda, before the revolution Khan Headquarters, from 1922 - Urda, until January 7, 1929 had the status of a city - a village in the Bokeyordinsky district of the West Kazakhstan region of Kazakhstan.
The administrative center of the Orda rural district. It is located about 54 km southeast of the village of Saykhin, the administrative center of the district, at an altitude of - 2 to 4 meters above sea level. The distance from Uralsk to the village of Khan-Ordasy is 533 kilometers
The village is located at the northern end of the Seven Sisters and Zhaskuskum sands and the northwestern outskirts of Ryn-Peski. To the west of the village is the Salt Mud (Khaki) salt marsh.
In 1848, the "Military-statistical survey of the lands of the Kirghiz-Kaisaks of the Internal (Bukeevskaya) and Trans-Ural (Small) hordes of the Orenburg department for reconnaissance and materials collected on the spot, compiled by the chief quartermaster of the Orenburg corps of the General Staff, Colonel I. I. Blaramberg" was published , which contains information about the population of the Khan's Headquarters:
- officials - 10,
Besides:
- Russian merchants, burghers and trading peasants - 73 (29.8%),
- Tatars - 99 (40.4%),
- Armenians - 4 (1.6%),
- sultans - 43 (17.6%),
- ordinary Kyrgyz 26 (10.6%).

In total (excluding officials) the population of the Khan Headquarters was 245 inhabitants, including 129 men and 116 women. Thus, the Tatars were the most numerous ethnic group (40%), followed by Russians (30%), and Kazakhs (both belonging to the Sultan's estate and commoners) were in third place (28%).
According to the All-Russian census of 1897, 2,564 inhabitants lived in the Khan's headquarters, of which 1,366 were men and 1198 were women, the population was distributed by language as follows:
- Kyrgyz-Kaisak (Kazakh) - 1378 inhabitants (53.7%),
- Tatar - 685 inhabitants (26.7%),
- Great Russian (Russian) - 416 inhabitants (16.2%),
- Little Russian (Ukrainian) - 66 inhabitants (2.6%),
- Armenian - 5 inhabitants (0.2%),
- German - 4 inhabitants (0.2%),
- Polish - 3 inhabitants (0.1%).

As of 1905, there were 4,648 residents in the Khan's Headquarters, who lived in 434 residential buildings. As of 1913, there were 2,558 residents in the Khan's Headquarters (1401 men and 1157 women), who lived in 500 households.
According to the 1920 census, the population of Urda (Khan's Headquarters) was 2,024 inhabitants, including 1059 men and 965 women. At the date of the census (28 August 1920), the settlement was recorded as a city.
According to the 1926 census, the population of the city of Urda was 4279 inhabitants, including 2256 men and 2023 women. The population of the city included:
- Kazakhs - 2705 (63.2%),
- Tatars - 796 (18.6%),
- Russians - 657 (15.4%),
- Ukrainians - 82 (1.9%),
- others - 39 (0.9%).

According to the 1939 census, the population of the village of Urda was 3987 inhabitants, including 1997 men and 1990 women. The ethnic composition of the village was as follows:
- Kazakhs - 2910 (73.0%),
- Russians - 628 (15.8%),
- Tatars - 282 (7.1%),
- Ukrainians - 97 (2.4%),
- Koreans - 7 (0.2%),
- others - 63 (1.6%).

When comparing with the results of the 1897 census, it can be seen that the shares of Russians and Ukrainians changed little, and the increase in the share of Kazakhs was due to a decrease in the share of the population that declared Tatar nationality, so in 1897 in the Khan Headquarters there were 2 Kazakhs per 1 Tatar, in 1926 there are 3.4 Kazakhs per 1 Tatar, and in 1939 in Urda there were already 10 Kazakhs per 1 Tatar.
According to the 1989 census, the population was 1736 people, the predominant nationality was Kazakhs. In 1999, the population of the village was 1922 people (957 men and 965 women). According to the 2009 census, 1967 people (982 men and 985 women) lived in the village.

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