Sengiley
53°57′43.92″N 48°47′39.84″E / 53.9622000°N 48.7944000°E
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Sengiley (Template:Lang-ru) is a town and the administrative center of Sengileyevsky District of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of Kuybyshev Reservoir 72 kilometers (45 mi) south of Ulyanovsk. Population: 6,959 (2010 Census);[1] 8,396 (2002 Census);[2] 10,366 (1989 Soviet census).[3]
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), named for a Church of the Intercession (Template:Lang-ru). In 1780, it was reorganized into the town of Sengiley, named for its position on the river then of the same name (now Sengileyka, a tributary of the Volga), which comes from Erzya syang 'tributary' and lei 'river.'[4]
In 1925, Sengiley was demoted in status to a rural locality, but it was granted urban-type settlement status in 1925. Town status was granted again in 1943.
References
- ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
- ^ Federal State Statistics Service (21 May 2004). Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
- ^ Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly.
- ^ Е. М. Поспелов. "Географические названия мира" (Москва, 1998), p. 379.
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