Sagra (russian: Сагра) is a
rural locality
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(a settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of
Verkhnyaya Pyshma
Verkhnyaya Pyshma (russian: Ве́рхняя Пышма́) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located north of Yekaterinburg. Population:
History
It was founded in 1660 as the village ('' selo'') of Pyshminskoye, which was named after ...
in
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblast) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Yekaterinburg, formerly known as S ...
,
Russia
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, located northwest of
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...
.
Overview
The settlement stands on the Black River, which flows into the nearby Isetskoe Lake. Sagra's population is between 113 and 188 people. The settlement has a railway platform on the
Nizhny Tagil
Nizhny Tagil ( rus, Нижний Тагил, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj tɐˈgʲil) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located east of the boundary between Asia and Europe. Population:
History
The prehistor ...
line to Yekaterinburg.
Sagra's name comes from northern Russian dialect word Sogra, meaning "swamp overgrown with low forests". To the southeast of the village is extensive
marsh
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land, which has been partly drained and overgrown with pines.
Events of July 1, 2011
On the night of Friday, July 1, 2011, there was a skirmish on the outskirts of the village between around thirty people. The skirmish was between residents, a group of bandits, and gang members, who came to Sagra by car and were members of the Azerbaijani diaspora in Yekaterinburg. One of the attackers was killed during the incident, a twenty-eight-year-old Georgian-born Azerbaijani man named Faig Musaev.
Police were called, but arrived hours later. The residents were charged with hooliganism.
T-shirts honoring the town’s defense were later printed: “If the government can’t help people,” they read, “It doesn’t have the right to forbid them from defending themselves — Sagra 2011.”
Local residents asked
Yevgeny Roizman
Yevgeny Vadimovich Roizman (Russian: Евге́ний Вади́мович Ро́йзман; born 14 September 1962) is a Russian opposition politician who served as the mayor of Yekaterinburg from 2013 to 2018. He campaigned against corrupt po ...
for help, who attracted massive public attention through high-profile posts in his LiveJournal.
References
External links
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"Конфликт в Сагре", ''Russian wikipedia''
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"Сагра (посёлок)", ''Russian wikipedia''
*http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2011/09/abolish-police-arm-citizens-sagra-model.html
*http://www.agoodtreaty.com/2011/07/14/russia-after-sagra/
*http://www.vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/15832.html
*www.traveljournals.net/explore/russia/map/p557621/sagra.html
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Rural localities in Sverdlovsk Oblast