Bograd

Bograd (Russian & Khakas: Боград, Bograd) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Bogradsky District of the Republic of Khakassia, Russia. Population: 4,670 (2010 census); 4,691 (2002 census); 5,262 (1989 Soviet census).

The village was founded in 1763 and originally called Tatarskaya Tes' by the ethnic Khakas. It was later renamed in 1933 after revolutionary Yakov Bograd

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