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city Uren Урень Federal district Volga Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Rajon Ures mayor Alexander Komarov Founded 1719 City since 1973 surface 12  km² population 12,304 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1025 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 100  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83154 Post Code 606800 License Plate 52, 152 OKATO 22 254 501 Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 27 '  N , 45 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 27 '0 "  N , 45 ° 47' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

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

Wooden houses in Uren

year	Residents
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

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 : Uren  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Uren on mojgorod.ru (Russian)