Sarai (Ryazan)
Urban-type settlement
Sarai
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Sarai ( Russian Сара́и ) is an urban-type settlement in Ryazan Oblast in Russia with 5802 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 130 km as the crow flies southeast of the Ryazan Oblast Administrative Center on the left bank of the Wjorda, a left tributary of the Para .
Sarai is the administrative center of the Sarajewski Rajons as well as the seat and only locality of the municipality Sarajewskoje gorodskoje posselenije.
history
The place was first mentioned in 1640. In the course of the second half of the 19th century in particular, it gained some economic importance after passing the railway line Ryashsk - Syzran and in 1905 it became the seat of a Volost of Ujezd Saposhok in the Ryazan governorate .
Since July 12, 1929 Sarai has been the administrative seat of a Rajon named after him. In 1960 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1905 | 3225 |
1939 | 6479 |
1959 | 5160 |
1970 | 6513 |
1979 | 6929 |
1989 | 7996 |
2002 | 6604 |
2010 | 5802 |
Note: from 1939 census data
traffic
In Sarai, the station is located at kilometer 377 Wjorda at opened on that section 1867 on the railway line ( Moscow -) Ryazhsk - Penza - Syzran.
The settlement is located on the regional road 61K-015 from Saposhok to Shazk , where there is a 50 km north-west connection to the federal trunk road M5 Ural Moscow - Samara - Chelyabinsk . The 61K-041 branches off to the west in the direction of Ucholowo .
Personalities
- Albert Sjomin (* 1937), agricultural scientist
- Ernst Safonow (1938–1994), writer, journalist and publicist
Web links
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)