Sernur

Urban-type settlement Sernur Сернур ( Russian ) Шернур ( Mari ) Federal district Volga republic Mari El Rajon Sernurski First mention 17th century Earlier names Makarsola / Makarjewo Blagoweschenskoje Urban-type settlement since 1966 population 8,686 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 170  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83633 Post Code 425450 License Plate 12 OKATO 88 248 551 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 56 '  N , 49 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 56 '0 "  N , 49 ° 8' 50"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Mari El

Sernur ( Russian Се́рнур ; Mari Шернур , Šernur ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Mari El ( Russia ) with 8,686 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located in the Volga region a good 80 kilometers as the crow flies northeast of the republic capital Yoshkar-Ola on the Serdjaschka river, which flows into the Vyatka via Lasch, Njomda and Pischma .

Sernur administrative center is the Rajons Sernurski and seat of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Sernur, (about 1.5 km north of the center) to the next of the settlement nor the almost immediately following villages Issajenki, Juschto Pamasch (2.5 km to the west) and Polanur (2 km southeast) belong.

history

The place was founded in the 17th century as a predominantly Mari- inhabited village Makarsola (Russian Makarjewo ). After the building of a church in 1749, the name Blagoweschenskoje after the name of the church was also in use ( Blagoweschtschenije for the Annunciation ). Later, the term Schernur , which is common among the Mari, or the Russified variant Sernur prevailed; Scher derived from Scherdesch for the Serdyashka river and just , mari for 'field'.

After the founding of the Autonomous Oblast of Mari in 1920 (from 1936 ASSR ), it was initially divided into three cantons on January 15, 1921, and Sernur was elevated to the administrative seat of the easternmost of the cantons and as such a city. In 1926 the place was again downgraded to a village (selo) , but remained the center of the canton (from 1932 Rajon).

In 1966 the status of an urban-type settlement took place.

Population development

year	Residents
1811	167
1939	1,358
1959	3,362
1970	5,836
1979	8,425
1989	10.196
2002	9,031
2010	8,686

Note: from 1939 census data

Culture and sights

In Sernur there is a history and literature museum , which is dedicated to the history of the place and the Rajons, the ethnography and folklore of the Mari and the poet Nikolai Sabolotski .

Personalities

• Nikolai Sabolozki (1903-1958), Russian poet and translator, spent part of his childhood in Sernur
• Schabdar Ossyp (1898–1937; actually Iossif Schabdarow), Mari poet and dramaturge, worked in Sernur in the 1930s as a teacher, victim of the Great Terror ; there is a bust in the village

Economy and Infrastructure

Sernur is the center of an agricultural area (predominantly cereal, potato and sugar beet cultivation as well as cattle farming) with several companies in the food industry.

The regional road R 172, coming from Yoshkar-Ola via Sowetski to Urschum in the neighboring Oblast Kirov, runs through the settlement . A road branches off in Sernur, which opens up the north-east of the republic and continues to Sovetsk , also in Kirov Oblast.

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)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Sernur on the website of the Geographical Institute of the RAN (Russian)
3. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)