Sharia
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SHARYA
Шарья
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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
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 |
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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
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
- ↑ 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
- City administration website (Russian)
- Sharia on mojgorod.ru (Russian)