Morki

Federal district	Volga
republic	Mari El
Rajon	Morki
Founded	1678
Urban-type settlement since	1969
population	9914 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center	110 m
Time zone	UTC + 3
Telephone code	(+7) 83635
Post Code	425120
License Plate	12
OKATO	88 232 551
Website	www.adm-morki.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates	56 ° 26 ' N , 49 ° 0' E Coordinates: 56 ° 25 '30 " N , 49 ° 0' 0" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Mari El

Morki ( Russian Морки ; Mari Морко , Morko ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Mari El ( Russia ) with 9,914 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is in the Volga region , about 75 kilometers southeast of the republic capital Yoshkar-Ola not far from the border to the neighboring Republic of Tatarstan . The Morjanka brook flows through the village in the river system of the left Volga tributary Ilet .

Morki is the administrative center of the Morki Rajon of the same name . The municipality (Gorodskoje posselenije) Morki also includes the village of Kanal, four kilometers to the east, in addition to the settlement.

history

The village of Morki was founded in 1678.

In the Soviet period after the establishment of the Autonomous Oblast of Mari in 1920 (forerunner of the ASSR of Mari ) on August 28, 1924, it became the administrative seat of a canton as one of the most compact settlement areas of the Mari . The canton was later converted into a Rajon.

On February 24, 1969, Morki received urban-type settlement status.

historical Museum
Palace of Culture
Local administration
Epiphany Church

Population development

year	Residents
1925	513
1939	1,813
1959	3,523
1970	5,344
1979	7,459
1989	9,612
2002	9,686
2010	9,914

Note: from 1939 census data

Culture and sights

In Morki is the Epiphany Church ( церковь Богоявления , zerkow Bogojawlenija ). The place has a history and literature museum and a culture palace.

In several villages of the Rajon there are further museums for personalities of the cultural life of the Mari: for the writer Sergei Tschawain (1888–1937) in the village of Tschawainur, for the writer Nikolai Muchin (1890–1937) in Olykjal and for the poet Nikolai Kasakow ( 1918–1989) in Kutjuk-Kiner.

Economy and Infrastructure

Morki is the center of an agricultural and forestry area.

The settlement is connected by a local road to the Schelanger settlement 56 kilometers away, where there is a connection to the federal highway R 175 from Zelenodolsk to Yoshkar-Ola and the nearest railway station is also located.

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)
↑ ^a ^b Morki on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
↑ History of the settlement on the Rajon Administration website (Russian)

Web links

Commons : Morki - collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the Raion Administration (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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)

[ran-2] Morki on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)

[3] History of the settlement on the Rajon Administration website (Russian)


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