Meleus
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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 |
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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
- ↑ 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)