Atameken (Pavlodar Region)
Atameken is a rural settlement in the Pavlodar Region of Kazakhstan. It is subordinate to the . Its KATO code is 551045100.
Name
The settlement was named as Lenin or Leninsky before 2023.Geographic location
Atameken is located 12 km west of Pavlodar.History
It was founded in the beginning in 1914 in the tract Bidaik, as an administrative aul behind No. 7.From 1938 to 1968, it was subordinate to Yermakovsky district. In the 1930s, the Lenin Machine-Tractor Station was founded here, which operated until 1957.
In 1965, the settlement got township status and was named Leninsky.
From 1973 to 1999 it was subordinate to Ilyichevsk district council. It is currently located in the rural area of Pavlodar.
Population
In 1999, the population of the village was 8,072 people. According to the 2009 census, there were 8,619 people in the village.At the beginning of 2019, the population of the settlement was 9,982.