Urus Martan

city Urus-Martan Урус-Мартан ( Russian ) Хьалха-Марта ( Chechen ) Federal district North Caucasus republic Chechnya Rajon Urus-Martanowski mayor Supyan Mochchayev City since 1990 surface 10  km² population 49,070 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 4907 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 230  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 87145 Post Code 366500-366526 License Plate 20, 95 OKATO 96 234 501 Geographical location Coordinates 43 ° 8 '  N , 45 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 8 '0 "  N , 45 ° 33' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Situation in Chechnya

List of cities in Russia

Urus-Martan ( Russian Уру́с-Марта́н ; Chechen Хьалха-Марта Halcha-Marta ) is a city with 49,070 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia , on the northern edge of the Caucasus .

General

Place in Urus-Martan

Urus-Martan is located in the central part of Chechnya, 31 km southwest of the capital Grozny on the Martan River in the Terek river system . It is the administrative center of the Rajons Urus-Martanowski and second largest city of Chechnya.

The place has had the status of a town since 1990, before that Urus-Martan was a large village ( Aul ) that existed at least in the 19th century.

The economy of the city and the Rajon today consists mainly of agriculture and some food factories. The R217 highway runs near the city and leads from the Krasnodar region to the Azerbaijani border.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	13,432
1959	11,672
1970	24,311
1979	27,942
1989	32,851
2002	39,982
2010	49,070

Note: census data

sons and daughters of the town

• Apti Auchadow (* 1992), weightlifter
• Mois (* 1991), Youtuber

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda po Čečenskoj respublike. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010 for the Chechen Republic. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Grozny 2012. ( Download from the website of the Chechen Republic territorial organ of the Federal Service of State Statistics)

Web links

Commons : Urus-Martan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Urus-Martan on mojgorod.ru (Russian)