Sengilei

city Sengiley Сенгилей coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Ulyanovsk Rajon Sengilei mayor Anatoly Mironov Founded 1666 City since 1943 surface 6  km² population 6958 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1160 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 70  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84233 Post Code 433380, 433381 License Plate 73, 173 OKATO 73 236 501 Website sengilej.3dn.ru Geographical location Coordinates 53 ° 58 '  N , 48 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '0 "  N , 48 ° 48' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ulyanovsk Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Sengilei ( Russian Сенгилей ) is a small town in the Ulyanovsk Oblast ( Russia ) with 6958 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Volga plate about 70 km south of the oblast capital Ulyanovsk on the right, steep bank of the Volga, which is dammed up to form the Kuibyshev reservoir .

Sengilei is the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

history

In 1666, the Simbirsk voivode, Prince Dashkov , had a fortification built on the site of today's city of Sengilei, in the border area of ​​what was then tsarist Russia . Several settlements ( Stanitschnaja , Butyrskaja , Wybornaja ) emerged around this , which were united at the beginning of the 18th century to form the village of Pokrovskoye (after the name of the church; Pokrow in Russian for the protection of the Virgin and Intercession ).

In 1780 the town was granted town charter as Sengilei , named after the river of the same name that flows into the Volga not far (also Sengileika ; from ersja-mordvinian sjang lei for tributary ). In the 19th century, Sengilei was the center of the grain and flour trade and was known for its apple orchards.

In 1925 the place lost its town charter, but was given the status of an urban-type settlement again in 1928 and renewed town charter in 1943.

In the 1950s, the old city center was flooded when the Kuibyshev reservoir was filled.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	5,734
1939	10,294
1959	10,677
1970	9,807
1979	10,817
1989	10,366
2002	8,396
2010	6,958

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Many architectural monuments of the 18th and 19th centuries were demolished in the 1950s during the flooding of the Kuibyshev reservoir. However, some higher buildings from the end of the 19th century, such as the Zemstvo administration and hospital as well as the former primary school, have been preserved.

The city has a local museum.

Six kilometers away, in the village of Karanino , is the former manor house of the Turgenev brothers - the historian Alexander Turgenev and the economist and publicist Nikolai Turgenev .

economy

Several smaller mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and building materials, furniture and food industries are located in Sengilei.

At the end of 2007, the German Henkel Bautechnik GmbH began building a plant in Krasny Guljai in Sengilei district .

sons and daughters of the town

• Vladimir Krylov (* 1964), Olympic athletics champion

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 : Sengiley  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
• Sengilei on mojgorod.ru (Russian)