Birsk

Birsk (Russian Бирск, Bashkir Бөрө / Börö ) is a city in the Republic of Bashkortostan (Russia) with 41 635 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the southern Uralvorland, about 100 km north of the capital of Republic of Ufa on the Belaya, a left tributary of the Kama.

Birsk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

Birsk was built in 1663 as a fortified settlement in place of the previously existing, but destroyed village Alexandrovskoe. In 1774 it was taken by insurgents Salavat Yulaev and burned, but later rebuilt. The town developed into a cultural and commercial center of the north-eastern Bashkiria and in 1781 as an administrative center of a circle ( Ujesds ) a town.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926 rounded)

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