Great Mary

settlement Urmary Урмары ( Russian ) Вӑрмар ( Chuvash ) coat of arms Federal district Volga republic Chuvashia Rajon Urmarsky head Sergei Yegorov First mention 1893 Settlement since 2006 population 5679 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 110  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83544 Post Code 429400 License Plate 21, 121 OKATO 97 238 000 001 Website gov.cap.ru Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 41 ′  N , 47 ° 57 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  N , 47 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Chuvashia

Urmary ( Russian Урма́ры ; Chuvash Вӑрмар ) is a settlement (possjolok) in the Republic of Chuvashia in Russia with 5679 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 65 km as the crow flies southeast of the republic capital Cheboksary , about seven kilometers from the border to the east neighboring Republic of Tatarstan and 25 km from the right bank of the Volga .

Urmary is the administrative center of the Rajons Urmarski and seat and only town of the municipality Urmarskoje gorodskoje posselenije.

history

The place was created in 1893 in connection with the construction of the railway line to Kazan , when a station was built there and named after the village of Malyje Urmary ("Little Urmary") located three kilometers to the west . The village, now called Staryje Urmary ("Old Urmary"), was the administrative seat of a Volost des Ujesds Ziwilsk from 1782 .

The settlement at the train station developed into an economic center after 1900, especially after the establishment of a furniture factory in 1902, and on September 5, 1927 it became the administrative seat of a newly created Rajons named after it. In 1947 the place received the status of an urban-type settlement . Since the administrative reform in 2006, Urmary has been classified as a rural settlement.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1081
1959	2380
1970	3918
1979	4687
1989	6016
2002	6316
2010	5679

Note: census data

traffic

Urmary has a train station at km 704 of the railway line Moscow  - Arsamas  - Kazan - Yekaterinburg, which opened on this section in 1894 and has been electrified since 1986 .

To the west of the settlement runs the regional road 97K-002, which begins almost 20 km northwest of the federal trunk road M7 Volga and continues in a south-westerly direction via Kanasch (on the A151 ) and Ibressi to the 97K-001 not far from Alatyr .

Web links

• Official website of the municipal administration (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)