Ardatow (Mordovia)
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List of cities in Russia |
Ardatow ( Russian Арда́тов , ersjanisch Орданьбуе , Ordanbuje ) is a small town in the Republic of Mordovia ( Russia ) with 9400 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 100 km northeast of the republic capital Saransk on the Alatyr , a left tributary of the Sura that flows into the Volga . The city is not to be confused with the urban-type (and former city) settlement of the same name Ardatow in the neighboring Nizhny Novgorod Oblast .
Ardatow is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .
history
Ardatow was first mentioned in 1671 as the village Ardatowo ( Арда́тово ) and received city rights in 1780.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 4,838 |
1939 | 7,360 |
1959 | 9,932 |
1979 | 9,192 |
1989 | 10,027 |
2002 | 9,587 |
2010 | 9,400 |
Note: census data
Ardatow's sons and daughters
- Alexandra Tjaschowa (1901–1978), geologist and paleontologist
- Pyotr Khrustalev (1904–1979), major general
- Ija Arepina (1930–2003), actress
- Vladimir Litjuschkin (* 1948), politician
Web links
- Ardatow on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Пётр Алексеевич Хрусталёв , pamyat-naroda.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Член Совета Федерации Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации - Литюшкин Владимир Васильевич , gsrm.ru (Russian)