Urussu (russian: Уруссу́; tt-Cyrl, Урыссу) is an urban locality (an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

) 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 A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...

Yutazinsky District Yutazinsky District (russian: Ютазинский райо́н; tt-Cyrl, Ютазы районы) is a territorial administrative unit and municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The administrative center i ...

in the Republic of Tatarstan,

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

, located on the left bank of the

Ik River The Ik (; tt-Cyrl, Ык, ''Iq''; , ''Iq'') is a river in Russia that flows north to the Kama. It flows through the Republics of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan and through Orenburg Oblast. The left tributaries are Mellya, Menzelya, Dymka, and th ...

at the border with the

Republic of Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkortostan ( ba, Башҡортостан Республикаһы, Bashqortostan Respublikahy; russian: Республика Башкортостан, Respublika Bashkortostan),; russian: Респу́блик� ...

, from the republic's

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Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...

. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 10,681.

History

It was established in 1945–1946 and was granted

status in 1947.''Inhabited Localities of the Republic of Tatarstan'', p. 282 It served as a district

in 1958–1963 and then again since 1991.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, the

of Urussu serves as the

, of which it is a part.Order #01-02/9 As a municipal division, Urussu is incorporated within Yutazinsky Municipal District as Urussu Urban Settlement.Law #46-ZRT

Economy

As of 1997, local industrial facilities included a

thermal power station A thermal power station is a type of power station in which heat energy is converted to electrical energy. In a steam-generating cycle heat is used to boil water in a large pressure vessel to produce high-pressure steam, which drives a stea ...

and various construction, chemical, and electrical plants. Urussu is a railway station on the

Ulyanovsk Ulyanovsk, known until 1924 as Simbirsk, is a city and the administrative center of Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River east of Moscow. Population: The city, founded as Simbirsk (), was the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin (born ...

– Ufa line.

Demographics

As of 1989, the population was mostly

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

(52.6%), Russian (39.4%), Bashkir (1.8%), and

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

(1.6%).

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Уруссу
{{Use mdy dates, date=February 2017 Urban-type settlements in the Republic of Tatarstan Populated places established in the 1940s