Insa
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Insa
Инза
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List of cities in Russia |
Insa ( Russian Инза ) is a city in the Ulyanovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 18,803 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located on the Volga plate about 170 km southwest of the oblast capital Ulyanovsk on the river Sjuksjum (also Sjuksjumka ) not far from its confluence with the Insa in the river system of the Volga .
Insa is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .
The city lies on the railway line ( Moscow -) Ryazan - Rusajewka - Syzran (- Samara ; route km 727 from Moscow), from which the line to Ulyanovsk branches off here.
history
Insa was built in 1897 as a station settlement during the construction of the new, shorter railway line Moscow – Samara, which became part of the original, southern route of the Trans-Siberian Railway (completion of the line to Ulyanovsk, then Simbirsk, 1898; the continuous line to Samara in 1900). The name after the nearby river was probably derived from the ersja-Mordovian insejen for raspberry .
In 1938 (according to other information already in 1926) Insa received the status of an urban-type settlement and in 1946 the town charter .
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 14,237 |
1959 | 18,612 |
1970 | 19,060 |
1979 | 20,320 |
1989 | 23,509 |
2002 | 20,288 |
2010 | 18.803 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
The main attraction is the almost original station complex with reception building , depot, hospital, etc. , which was built at the end of the 19th century .
economy
The largest plant in Russia for the production of thermal insulation materials from diatomites mined in the vicinity is located in Insa . There is also a cement factory and companies in the wood processing, textile and food industries.
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)
Web links
- Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
- Insa on mojgorod.ru (Russian)