Meleus

city Meleus Мелеуз ( Russian ) Мәләүез ( Bashkir ) Federal district Volga republic Bashkortostan Rajon Meleus head Malik Wachitow Founded 18th century City since 1958 surface 32  km² population 61,390 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1918 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 175  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 34764 Post Code 453850-453856 License Plate 02, 102 OKATO 80 425 Website http://meleuz.bashnet.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 57 ′  N , 55 ° 56 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  N , 55 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Bashkortostan

List of cities in Russia

Meleus ( Russian Мелеуз , Bashkir Мәләүез ) is a city in the Republic of Bashkortostan ( Russia ) with 61,390 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the western edge of the Southern Urals , about 200 km south of the republic capital Ufa at the confluence of the Meleus in the Belaja , a left tributary of the Kama .

Meleus is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

history

Meleus was created in the second half of the 18th century and has been a station on the Ufa – Orenburg postal route since the 1780s . At the end of the 19th century, the place was an important trade and handicraft center of southeast Bashkiria, received the status of an urban-type settlement in 1938 and town charter in 1958.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	9,057
1959	17,772
1970	24,851
1979	38,409
1989	53,448
2002	62,949
2010	61,390

Note: census data

Web links

• City administration website (Russian)
• Meleus on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

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)