Alatyr (city)

city Alatyr Алатырь ( Russian ) Ulatăr ( Chuvash ) flag coat of arms Federal district Volga republic Chuvashia Urban district Alatyr mayor Nikolai Ivanovich Saikin Founded 1552 City since 1780 surface 41.7  km² population 38,203 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 916 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 130  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83531 Post Code 42982x License Plate 21, 121 OKATO 97 404 Website gov.cap.ru/main.asp?govid=56 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 51 '  N , 46 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 51 '0 "  N , 46 ° 35' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Chuvashia

List of cities in Russia

Alatyr ( Russian Алатырь , Chuvash Улатӑр / Ulatăr , Mordvin Ратор Ош / Rator Osh ) is a city in the Republic of Chuvashia within the Volga Federal District in Russia . It is the administrative seat of Alatyr Rajons and has 38,203 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Alatyr is located about 800 km southeast of Moscow and about 195 km southwest of the republic capital Cheboksary on the left bank of the Sura at the mouth of the Alatyr River .

history

In 1552, Tsar Ivan the Terrible had a fortified settlement built at the mouth of the Alatyr River to protect the borders of the Moscow Empire . Alatyr has been the county seat since 1780.

In the city there was a prisoner of war camp 463 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War .

Population development

year	Residents
1795	2,830
1825	3,565
1897	12,209
1915	25,144
1926	22,437
1939	29,782
1959	40,074
1970	43,499
1979	45.272
1989	46,593
2002	43,161
2010	38.203

Note: 1897 and from 1926 census data

Economy and Transport

Alatyr owns a locomotive repair shop. Other important branches of industry are machorka and shoe manufacture as well as electrical appliance manufacture. The city lies on the Penza - Kazan railway line and has a river port on the Sura and an airfield.

Attractions

Simbirskaya Street and the Church of Our Lady of Kazan (left). Photograph from 1908

The city is a center of Russian Orthodoxy in Chuvashia ; Numerous historical sacred buildings testify to this , among many others the St. John's Church (Иоанно-Предтеченская церковь, 1703), the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God (Богородице-Рождественский , strong, Trinity , founded in 1747 ; Trinity собор, in 1747 ; ) and the Nicholas Monastery (Николаевский монастырь, founded in 1634). In addition, numerous streets with buildings from the 19th to early 20th centuries have been preserved in the city center.

sons and daughters of the town

• Andrei Schidlowski (1915–2007), mathematician
• Alexei Sudajew (1912-1946), weapons designer

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)
2. ↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.

Web links

Commons : Alatyr  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city administration (Russian)
• Alatyr on mojgorod.ru (Russian)