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* [http://sengilej.3dn.ru/ |
* [http://sengilej.3dn.ru/ The official web-site of Sengiley administration] |
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* [http://sengiley.ru/ SENGILEY.RU — The polular web-portal about Sengiley since 2006] |
* [http://sengiley.ru/ SENGILEY.RU — The polular web-portal about Sengiley since 2006] |
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* [http://sengiley.ru/besedka Forum Sengiley Besedka] |
* [http://sengiley.ru/besedka Forum Sengiley Besedka] |
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Sengiley (Template:Lang-ru) is a town in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Kuybyshev Reservoir 72 km south of Ulyanovsk at 53°57′43.92″N 48°47′39.84″E / 53.9622000°N 48.7944000°E. Population: 8,396 (2002 Census); 10,366 (1989 Census).
It was founded in 1666 as a defensive military outpost against nomadic raids. Several slobodas later formed around the outpost, and in the beginning of the 18th century the slobodas of Stanichnaya, Butyrskaya, and Vybornaya merged into the village of Pokrovskoye (Покро́вское. In 1780, it was reorganized into the town of Sengiley.
In 1925, Sengiley was demoted in status to rural settlement, but it was granted urban-type settlement status in 1925. Town status was granted again in 1943.
Links
- The official web-site of Sengiley administration
- SENGILEY.RU — The polular web-portal about Sengiley since 2006
- Forum Sengiley Besedka
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