Uruscha (place)

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Urban-type settlement
Uruscha
Уруша
Federal district far East
Oblast Amur
Rajon Skovorodino
Founded around 1910
Urban-type settlement since 1950
population 3777 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center 440  m
Time zone UTC + 9
Telephone code (+7) 41654
Post Code 676020
License Plate 28
OKATO 10 249 585
Geographical location
Coordinates 54 ° 3 '  N , 122 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '0 "  N , 122 ° 53' 0"  E
Uruscha (place) (Russia)
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Situation in Russia
Urusha (place) (Amur Oblast)
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Location in Amur Oblast

Urusha ( Russian Уруша ) is an urban-type settlement in Amur Oblast ( Russia ) with 3777 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the north of the Amur extending low mountain range in the Russian Far East , about 530 km (straight line) northwest of Oblasthauptstadt Blagoveshchensk . The Uruscha of the same name , a left tributary of the Amur, flows through the village .

Urusha belongs to the Skovorodino district , the administrative center of which is Skovorodino 70 kilometers to the east.

history

The place was created around 1910 in connection with the construction of the Amur railway from Kuenga not far from Sretensk in Transbaikalia to Khabarovsk . The railway line was opened on this section in 1914. In 1950 urban-type settlement status was given.

Population development

year Residents
1959 5476
1970 4884
1979 5645
1989 4929
2002 4422
2010 3777

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

There are forestry and railway companies in the settlement.

Uruscha is a station of the Trans-Siberian Railway (route km 7211 from Moscow ). Not far south of the settlement, the M58 Amur road, which is still under construction on this section as the last section of the trans-Siberian road, also passes.

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)