Sharia

city SHARYA Шарья flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Kostroma Urban district Sharia mayor Vladimir Klimov Founded 1906 City since 1938 surface 26  km² population 23,681 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 911 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 110  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49449 Post Code 157500-157505 License Plate 44 OKATO 34 430 Website adm-sharya.narod.ru Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 22 '  N , 45 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 22 '0 "  N , 45 ° 31' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kostroma Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Sharja ( Russian Шарья́ ) is a city in the Kostroma Oblast ( Russia ) with 23,681 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Wetluga Bridge at Sharja

The city is located about 330 km northeast of the oblast capital Kostroma on the left bank of the Wetluga , a left tributary of the Volga .

Sharja forms an independent urban district and is also the administrative center of the Sharja Rajon of the same name . The city district are outside the city SHARYA nor the urban-type settlement Wetluschski and the three villages Aleschunino, Koregino and Michalkino.

The city lies on the main line of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which opened on this section in 1906 (route km 701 from Moscow ).

history

Sharia was established around 1906 as a station settlement in connection with the construction of the railway line Saint Petersburg - Vologda - Vjatka (later part of the Trans-Siberian Railway). It was named after a nearby river, derived from the Finno-Ugric root word shar , which u. a. Arm of the river or simply river means.

On November 27, 1938, the place received city rights.

Since the early 1990s, Great Falls in US -Bundesstaat Montana twin city of SHARYA.

Population development

year	Residents
1926	14,300
1939	14,333
1959	22,268
1970	25,788
1979	26,012
1989	27,062
2002	24,900
2010	23,681

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

Sharia train station

Sharja is the cultural center of the northeastern part of Kostroma Oblast. Several higher education institutions have branches. In recent years the old wooden Nikolai church has been rebuilt. The city has a local museum.

In the village of Roshdestvenskoye in the Rajon is the former country residence of the noble Lagunin family with a park.

economy

Sharja is the center of the timber industry and the wood processing industry (furniture factory, etc.). There is also a large railway depot with workshops as well as companies in the construction and food industries (e.g. bottling of the Sharjinskaya mineral water ).

sons and daughters of the town

• Lyudmila Kolchanova (* 1979), athlete

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)

Web links

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

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