Barysh
Barysch (Russian Барыш ) is a city in Ulyanovsk Oblast (Russia) with 17 149 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The city is located about 140 km southwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Ulyanovsk on the right bank of the same river Barysch, a right tributary of the opening into the Volga Sura.
Barysch is the Oblast administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.
The town lies on the railway line Moscow - Ryazan - Rusajewka - Sysran - Samara ( distance 794 km from Moscow).
History
First mentioned in a document villages in the area of the present town originated in the second half of the 17th century. An economic boom, it came with the establishment of a cloth weaving in the village Gurjewka 1826. 1848 was a paper mill in the village Kurojedowo, later Troitsko - Kurojedowo. By the end of the 19th century more factories, so the area for economically weitentwickeltsten area of the otherwise predominantly agricultural provinces of former Simbirsk was.
On September 7, 1928 Troitsko - Kurojedowo was named after the river on the urban-type settlement Barysch; Gurjewka also received this status. During the Second World War more textile mills from Vitebsk and Gomel were relocated to the west of the Soviet Union after Barysch.
On December 22, 1954 Barysch became a town with merger of the two settlements.
Demographics
Note: Census data (1939 rounded)
Culture and sights
In Barysch the Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь / Troitskaya Tserkov ) from 1754 obtained ( restored 1991-1993), as well as factory and administration building of weaving Gurjewka of 1826 and the mansion of the founder D. Krotkow.
The city owns a home and Historical Museum.
Nearby, on the upper reaches of the river Malaya Sviyaga, the Founded in 1848, 176 hectares Akschaut Park ( Akschautski park ) stretches with a number of the area atypical tree species.
Economy
In Barysch Maschinenfabrik AG reducer ( gear manufacturer ), several textile, paper and settled a furniture factory and enterprises in the construction and food industries.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Olga Abramova (* 1988), biathlete