Yaransk (russian: Яра́нск; chm, Яраҥ, ''Yaraň'') is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and the

administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located. In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...

of Yaransky District in Kirov Oblast, Russia, located on the Yaran River ( Vyatka's basin), southwest of Kirov, the administrative center of the

oblast An oblast (; ; Cyrillic (in most languages, including Russian and Ukrainian): , Bulgarian: ) is a type of administrative division of Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as the Soviet Union and the Kingdo ...

. Population:

History

In the Middle Ages, it had a central position in the land of Mari and served as the capital of the

Mari people The Mari ( chm, мари; russian: марийцы, mariytsy) are a Finnic people, who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama rivers in Russia. Almost half of Maris today live in the Mari El republic, with significant populations in ...

. In 1584, Yaransk was founded as a Russian fortress on the Yaran River where the old Mari fortress once stood to defend against the Mari. A ''

posad A posad (russian: посад, uk, посад) was a historical type of settlement in East Slavic lands since the Ancient Rus, often surrounded by ramparts and a moat, adjoining a town or a kremlin, but outside of it, or adjoining a monaster ...

'' later grew around the fortress. Town status was granted to Yaransk in 1780.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Yaransk serves as the

of Yaransky District.Law #203-ZO As an administrative division, it is, together with eighteen rural localities, incorporated within Yaransky District as the

Town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

of Yaransk. As a municipal division, the Town of Yaransk is incorporated within Yaransky Municipal District as Yaranskoye Urban Settlement.Law #284-ZO

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* * {{Authority control Cities and towns in Kirov Oblast Yaransky Uyezd