Aksakovo Municipality


Aksakovo Municipality is a municipality in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located near the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is named after its administrative centre – the town of Aksakovo.
The municipality embraces a territory of 472 km², bordering the Dobrich Province to the north, with a population of 21,919 inhabitants, as of December 2009. In the southernmost parts of the area is the eastern end of Hemus motorway which is planned to connect the port of Varna with the country capital – Sofia. Also there is situated Varna International Airport.

The municipality of Aksakovo at a glance

Municipality Aksakovo is located in the eastern part of the Danube plain, occupies part of the Dobrudja plateau and small part of the valley of river Batova. It has direct access to the Black sea through 4 km stripe between Zlatni Piassatsi resort and Kranevo village. The municipality embraces 23 settlements with center the town of Aksakovo.
The strategic geographic position of Municipality Aksakovo combines transport connections on land, air and water. Through the territory of the municipality passes the highway Haemus connecting Varna with the capital Sofia. Very close are located the ports Varna West – 12 km., Varna East – 8 km. and Ferryboat complex – 6 km.
The civil airport for home and international transport is the second of importance in Bulgaria and is located on the territory of Municipality Aksakovo. In summer time charter flights connect the Airport Varna with all important airports in Europe and Asia.
The most important and constant transport connection is between the municipal center Aksakovo and Varna. By its well developed transport infrastructure Municipality Aksakovo is connected with the greatest resort complexes on the north Black sea coast – Zlatni Piassatsi, St. St. Constantine and Helena, Albena, Kranevo and Balchik. Near the municipality /on 6 km./ is located a Ferryboat complex and railway easing the contacts in the region with domestic and international partners.
Taking into account the close location of Aksakovo to the attractive tourist summer seaside resorts: St. St. Constantine and Helena, Zlatni Piassatsi and Albena, the municipality has all conditions for the growth of rural, hunting and sport tourism.
In the municipality territory parts of the nature park Zlatni Piassatsi, nature park Pobiti kamani and the area Batova are included.
Fully reconstructed and restored churches meet locals and guests from the country and abroad as well as they keep the Christian spirit in them.
The municipality is traditionally well developed agrarian region. The climate is especially good for the production of cereals and growth of vineyards. In the region of Aksakovo is located the greatest in the region greenhouse complex, where is employed on full-time year round basis an important part of the municipality population. The potential of agrarian lands is considered as priority for the economic growth of the municipality and one of the focuses is to lay the foundations of modern agricultural sector.
The favorable conditions in the municipality create opportunities for economic growth of certain sub-sectors as food industry, meat processing industry and ecologic agricultural production, as well as furniture and construction related materials.

Organizations

The municipality of Aksakovo is member of the Union of the Bulgarian Black Sea Local Authorities. At the moment the organization unites 20 municipalities bordering the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, namely: Аvren, Аksakovo, Balchik, Beloslav, Burgas, Byala, Varna, Valchi dol, Dalgopol, Devnya, Dobrich, Dolni Chiflik, Каvarna, Мalko Tarnovo, Nesebar, Pomorie, Primorsko, Suvorovo, Shabla and Tsarevo. The president of UBBSLA is the mayor of the municipality of AKsakovo, Eng. Atanas Stoilov.

Characteristics

Land area: 460 536 decares :
Important information: Significant percentage of the forestland represents part of the National Park Zlatni pjasaci

Settlements

Aksakovo Municipality includes the following 23 places :
Town/VillageCyrillicPopulation
AksakovoАксаково7,897
BotevoБотево251
DobrogledДоброглед237
DolishteДолище407
General KantardzhievoГенерал Кантарджиево435
IgnatievoИгнатиево4,253
IzvorskoИзворско869
KichevoКичево1,103
KlimentovoКлиментово287
KrumovoКрумово185
KumanovoКуманово439
Lyuben KaravelovoЛюбен Каравелово1,640
NovakovoНоваково175
OreshakОрешак300
OsenovoОсеново401
PripekПрипек116
RadevoРадево66
SlanchevoСлънчево865
VoditsaВодица299
VaglenВъглен1,130
YarebichnaЯребична209
ZasmyanoЗасмяно189
ZornitsaЗорница166
Total21,919

Demography

The following table shows the change of the population during the last four decades.

Religion

According to the latest Bulgarian census of 2011, the religious composition, among those who answered the optional question on religious identification, was the following:
An overwhelming majority of the population of Aksakovo Municipality identify themselves as Christians. At the 2011 census, 85.7% of respondents identified as Orthodox Christians belonging to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

Local authorities

The municipal council of Aksakovo is elected for a 4-year term. The council comprises 21 municipal councillors. The current President of the Municipal Council of Aksakovo is Ms. Svetlana Dobreva. The highest-ranking official in the municipal government is the mayor who is elected for a 4-year term. The current mayor of Aksakovo is Eng. Atanas Stoilov.