Ugra (Smolensk)

Village Ugra Угра coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Smolensk Rajon Ugranski Founded 1929 Village since 2013 surface 11.22  km² population 4278 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 381 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 200  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 48137 Post Code 215430 License Plate 67 OKATO 66 250 551 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 47 '  N , 34 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 46 '45 "  N , 34 ° 20' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Smolensk Oblast

Ugra ( Russian Угра́ ) is a village (selo) in Smolensk Oblast in Russia with 4278 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 150 km as the crow flies east of the Smolensk Oblast Administrative Center not far from the right bank of the eponymous left Oka tributary Ugra .

Ugra is the administrative center of Ugranski Rajons and the seat of the Ugranskoje selskoje posselenije rural community . Since its formation in 2004, only the village Fyodorovskoye, located six kilometers southwest, has belonged to the municipality, but since 2017 there have been 26 other villages in the former rural communities of Mytishinskoje (14 places) and Russanovskoye (12 places), including their seats in Mytishino (20 km to the west) and Russanowo (3 km northwest).

history

The place arose from 1929 around a train station, which was built there in 1928 on the route Vyazma  - Brjansk and named after the nearby river; the line went into operation in 1930. Ugra initially belonged to Znamenski rajon, which was also created in 1929 and is based in the village of Znamenka a good 20 km northeast .

During the Second World War , the area was taken in early October 1941 during the double battle near Vyazma and Bryansk by the German Wehrmacht as they advanced from Spas-Demensk to the "Vyazma Pocket". From March to May 1942, the station was temporarily in the hands of Soviet partisans or airborne troops and regular cavalry operating there in the German rear of the front , which were then defeated throughout the area as part of the German company Hanover . Ugra was finally captured by the advancing Red Army in mid-March 1943 in the final phase of the Battle of Rzhev , during the German retreat known as the "Operation Buffalo Movement" .

Except for the train station, Ugra remained insignificant until after the war. It was not until the 1950s that the village grew rapidly with the settlement of various businesses, and the surrounding small villages of Deniskowo, Krasnaya Polyana and Troitskoje became part of the village. In 1961 it finally became the seat of a new Rajon. This was created through the merger of the Znamensky rajon and the Wschodski rajon, which has also existed since 1929 (with interruptions from 1931-1935) and is based in the village of Wschody, 20 km southwest of Ugra . From 1963 to 1965 the Rajon was temporarily dissolved and its territory was annexed to the Vyazemsky Rajon.

In 1966 Ugra received the status of an urban-type settlement and as such became the seat of a municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) during the administrative reform of 2004 . This was converted into a rural community in 2013, and the place itself has been a village ever since.

Population development

year	Residents
1970	3664
1979	4448
1989	5059
2002	4848
2010	4278

Note: census data

traffic

The regional road 66N-2102 leads to Ugra, which branches off a good 20 km northeast at Snamenka from the 66K-13, which runs from the federal highway M1 Belarus near Vyazma to the border of the Kaluga oblast , there past Juchnow to the federal highway M3 Ukraina not far from Kaluga .

There is a train station in the village at 49 km on the Vyazma - Bryansk line.

Web links

Commons : Ugra  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Rural Municipality of Ugranskoye on the official Rajon Administration website (in Russian)

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)