Uren, Russia

Uren (Russian Урень ) is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Russia) with 12,304 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 180 km northeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Nizhny Novgorod on the right bank of the Usta, a left tributary of the opening into the Volga Vetluga.

Uren is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

History

The place was first mentioned in 1719 as a newly created village Trjochswjatskoje, Uren also documented. The former term refers to the name of the village church, while the latter is a turksprachiger in the Volga region common toponym origin ( or for or for digging, gorge ).

In 1959 the place the status of an urban-type settlement and on December 27, 1973, the city law.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

In Uren the Church of the Three Holy Hierarchs ( церковь Трёх Святителей / Tserkov Trjoch Swjatitelei ) is obtained from the 18th century.

Nearby are the remains of the Old Believers hermitage Krasnojarski skit, which in addition to the Komarowski skit at Semyonov writer Pavel Melnikov (1818-1883, pseudonym Andrei Pechersky ) inspired his two-part novel in the woods and on the mountains.

Economy and infrastructure

In Uren, there are companies in the wood and wood processing, textiles, building materials industry.

The city lies on the opened on this section 1927 railway Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod -Kirov ( kilometer 625 ), on the upside today, much of the features of the Trans-Siberian railway on its western part from Moscow.

By Uren, the road R159 Nizhny Novgorod - Yaransk, branches off from the here the R157 about Vetluga, Scharja, Nikolsk and Veliky Ustjug to Kotlas.

Personalities

Besides Pavel Melnikov - Pechersky held in Uren also the writer Alexei Pissemski (1821-1881) and Mikhail Prishvin (1873-1954), and were related in some of their works to the site and its surroundings.