Agrys

city Agrys Agruz Federal district Volga republic Tatarstan Rajon Agrys mayor (apparently vacant) First mention 1646 City since 1938 surface 8.6  km² population 19,300 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2244 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 105  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 85551 Post Code 422231, 422233 License Plate 16, 116 OKATO 92 201 501 Website agryz.tatarstan.ru Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 31 ′  N , 53 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 56 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  N , 53 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tatarstan

List of cities in Russia

Agrys ( Russian Агры́з ) is a Russian city ​​in the Republic of Tatarstan in the Volga federal district with 19,300 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 950 km east of Moscow , in the extreme north of Tatarstan, on the border with the Udmurt Republic , about 40 km south of Izhevsk and about 300 km northeast of Kazan .

history

Agrys was first mentioned as a settlement in 1646. At the beginning of the 20th century, the settlement served as a replenishment depot and train station for the Kazan - Yekaterinburg railway that opened in 1915 . From 1924 to 1926 Agrys had the status of a small town, was given town status on August 28, 1938 and became a district center on March 4, 1964.

Population development

year	Residents
1859	2,340
1890	2,758
1920	4,543
1926	7,339
1939	15,409
1959	20,270
1970	19,267
1979	20,137
1989	19,732
2002	18,620
2010	19,300

Note: 1926-2010 census data

According to the 1989 census, the population was made up of 50.1% Tatars , 38.6% Russians and 7.2% Udmurts .

traffic

Agrys is connected to the Russian M7 highway from Moscow to Kazan and via the railroad to the major cities of Kazan, Yekaterinburg and Izhevsk.

Others

In the village there is a wagon factory and railway workshop, a milk combine, a printing works, four secondary schools and two further educational institutions, a local museum, the district hospital and several mosques. The economic focus is on forestry and agriculture, livestock and sheep breeding, and the extraction of crude oil.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

• City and Rajon Administration website (Russian)
• Agrys on mojgorod.ru (Russian)