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Scharja (Russian Шарья ) is a town in Kostroma Oblast (Russia) with 23,681 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 330 km northeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Kostroma on the left bank of the Vetluga, a left tributary of the Volga.

Scharja forms a separate urban district and is also the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Scharja. The city district still includes in addition to the city Scharja the urban-type settlement Wetluschski and the three villages Aleschunino, Koregino and Michalkino.

The town lies on the main line, which opened on this section 1906 Trans-Siberian Railway ( Route 701 kilometers from Moscow).

History

Scharja came about in 1906 as a station settlement in connection with the construction of the railway line St. Petersburg - Vologda - Vyatka (later part of the Trans-Siberian Railway ). It was named after a river nearby, derived from the Finno -Ugric root word gaggle, among other things, Means Bayou or simply flow.

On November 27, 1938, the site received its town charter.

Since the early 1990s, Great Falls is in the U.S. state of Montana twinned Scharja.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

Scharja is the cultural center of the north-eastern part of the Kostroma Oblast. Several higher education institutions operate branches. In recent years, the old wooden St. Nicholas Church was rebuilt. The city has a museum of local history.

In the village Roschdestwenskoje in Rajon the former country estate of the noble family Lagunin located with parking.

Economy

Scharja is the center of the timber industry and the wood processing industry ( furniture factory, etc.). There are also large railroad depot with workshops and enterprises of the construction industry and the food industry (eg bottling of mineral water Scharjinskaja ).

Sons and daughters of the town

• Lyudmila Koltschanowa ( b. 1979 ), athlete