Uruscha (place)
Urban-type settlement
Uruscha
Уруша
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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 |
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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
- ↑ 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)