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Uren
Урень
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List of cities in Russia |
Uren ( Russian Урень ) is a town in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast ( Russia ) with 12,304 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city lies about 180 km northeast of Oblasthauptstadt Nizhny Novgorod on the right bank of Usta , a left tributary of the Volga opens Vetluga .
Uren is the administrative center of the Rajons of the same name .
history
The place was first mentioned in 1719 as a newly founded village Trjochswjatskoje, also Uren . The former designation refers to the name of the village church, while the latter is a toponym of Turkish origin that is common in the Volga region ( ur or or for ditch , gorge ).
In 1959 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement and on December 27, 1973 city rights.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 5.010 |
1959 | 10,762 |
1970 | 10,591 |
1979 | 13,116 |
1989 | 13,560 |
2002 | 12,558 |
2010 | 12,304 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
The Church of the Three Holy Hierarchs ( церковь Трёх Святителей / zerkow Trjoch Svjatitelei) from the 18th century has been preserved in Uren .
Nearby are the remains of the old Orthodox hermitage Krasnoyarski skit , which, in addition to the Komarowski skit near Semjonow, inspired the writer Pavel Melnikow (1818–1883, pseudonym Andrei Pechersky ) to write his two-part novel In the woods and on the mountains .
Economy and Infrastructure
In Uren there are companies in the wood and wood processing and textile industries as well as the building materials industry.
The city is located on the railway line Moscow –Nizhny Novgorod– Kirov (route km 625) opened on this section in 1927 , on which a large part of the trains of the Trans-Siberian Railway runs on its western part from Moscow.
The R159 Nizhny Novgorod– Jaransk road runs through Uren , from which the R157 branches off to Kotlas via Wetluga , Sharia , Nikolsk and Veliky Ustyug .
Personalities
In addition to Pawel Melnikow-Pechersky, the writers Alexei Pissemski (1821–1881) and Michail Prischwin (1873–1954) also stayed in Uren and referred to the place and its surroundings in some of their works.
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
- Uren on mojgorod.ru (Russian)