Mari-Turek

Urban-type settlement Mari-Turek Мари-Турек ( Russian ) Марий Тӱрек ( Mari ) Federal district Volga republic Mari El Rajon Mari-Turek First mention 1699 Urban-type settlement since 1975 population 5164 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 140  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83634 Post Code 425500 License Plate 12 OKATO 88 224 551 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 48 '  N , 49 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 47 '30 "  N , 49 ° 36' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Mari El

Mari-Turek ( Russian Мари-Турек ; Mari Марий Тӱрек , Marij Türek ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Mari El ( Russia ) with 5,164 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located in the Volga region , a good 100 kilometers east-northeast of the republic capital Yoshkar-Ola in the eastern part of the republic. The Turetschka brook runs through the village and flows a few kilometers southeast into the Nolja, which flows over the Urschumka to the Vjatka .

Mari-Turek is the administrative center of the Mari-Turek Rajon of the same name . The municipality (Gorodskoje posselenije) Mari-Turek also includes the ten surrounding villages and rural settlements Andrejewski, Engerbal, Kitnemutschasch, Mari-Kitnja, Mari-Scholner, Nizhny Turek, possjolok po retschke Nolja, Russki Scholner, Savchniodskoi and Werchniodskoi .

history

A village called Turek was first mentioned in 1699, according to other sources in 1719. The term turek or türek is derived from the Mari word for border or peripheral area, because the place was and is near the border of the settlement area of ​​this ethnic group. Since the place itself was mainly inhabited by Mari, the place name was later expanded to distinguish it from the village of Russki Turek, which is located further east on the Vyatka and has been inhabited mainly by Russians since the 18th century . In 1766 a church was built to make the place a center of Christianization of the Mari, who were still predominantly pagan in this area . From 1780 the place belonged to the Ujesd Urschum of the Kazan governorate and was, with interruptions, the seat of a village community (Wolost).

In the Soviet period, after the establishment of the Autonomous Oblast of Mari in 1920 (forerunner of the Mari ASSR ), in 1924 it became the administrative seat of a canton that was later converted into a Rajon. In 1975 Mari-Turek received urban-type settlement status.

Population development

year	Residents
1905	496
1939	1387
1959	1942
1970	3203
1979	4942
1989	6098
2002	5973
2010	5164

Note: from 1939 census data

Culture and sights

The place has a small local museum, which is named after the agricultural scientist and academician Vasily Petrovich Mossolow (1888-1951), who was born in Mari-Turek .

Economy and Infrastructure

Mari-Turek is the center of an agricultural area.

The regional road R 172 , which connects Yoshkar-Ola, where the nearest train station is located, with the small town of Urschum in the neighboring Kirov Oblast , passes a good ten kilometers northwest of the town .

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. ↑ ^{a b} Mari-Turek on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
3. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)

Web links

• Private website about Mari-Turek ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)