Uryupinsk

city Urjupinsk Урюпинск coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Volgograd Urban district Uryupinsk mayor Sergei Gornjakov City since 1929 surface 40  km² population 41,590 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1040 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 80  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84442 Post Code 403110-403117 License Plate 34, 134 OKATO 18 425 Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 48 '  N , 42 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '0 "  N , 42 ° 1' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Volgograd Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Urjupinsk ( Russian Урю́пинск ) is a city with 41,590 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Volgograd Oblast in Russia . It is located 340 km northwest of the regional capital Volgograd , on the left bank of the Chopjor River .

history

Goat Monument in Uryupinsk

The exact founding date of the place is not known: some historians believe that Urjupinsk existed as early as the 15th century on the southern borders of the then Ryazan principality, others assume that it was founded around 1618 by Don Cossacks . The city name could have come from the term u ruba - "on a slope" - and meant the original location on a steep river bank.

In the course of the next centuries Uryupinsk was mainly inhabited by Cossacks and until the beginning of the 20th century it was a stanitsa , a Cossack village called Uryupinskaya . From the 18th century, the village gained supraregional importance as a trading center, and annual fairs were held here .

On January 7, 1929 Stanitsa Urjupinskaya received the city status and the name Urjupinsk. At the same time it became the Rajon center.

In the city there was the wartime POW Camp 123 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War . It is very likely that the prisoner of war hospital 5770 emerged from it, in which seriously ill people were cared for.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	11,286
1926	14,417
1939	21,686
1959	31,546
1970	38.192
1979	40,229
1989	42,954
2002	41,960
2010	41,590

Note: census data

economy

Agriculture plays an important role in and around Urjupinsk. There are several food factories in the city, as well as a shoe factory, a furniture factory, a textile factory, a crane factory and a paper and packaging factory. Goat down towels are also a local specialty. The goat monument in Urjupinsk, which was inaugurated in September 2000, alludes to this old and unusual craft. 

Oddities about the city name

In colloquial Russian, the name Urjupinsk is often used jokingly as a synonym for a remote provincial town, comparable to Buxtehude, which is little known in parts of Germany as a real place . This expression became common with the movie Ein Menschenschicksal, based on the novel of the same name by the writer Mikhail Scholochow , the plot of which takes place in Urjupinsk. Several mayors used this joke and the resulting popularity and stimulated a civil society development that is unparalleled in Russia.

sons and daughters of the town

• Sergei Shtemenko (1907–1976), Army General

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. ↑ Maschke, Erich (Ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.
3. ↑ http://www.statesymbol.ru/image/regionsymbol/20050726/39598088.html
4. ↑ I will give up everything and go to Uryupinsk ... How a legendary joke became the slogan of the capital of the Russian province , Novaya Gazeta, January 16, 2019

Web links

Commons : Urjupinsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Unofficial website (Russian)
• Urjupinsk in the online lexicon mojgorod.ru (Russian)