Insar (; , ''Inzara''; , ''Insar oš'') is a

town A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...

and the

administrative center An administrative centre 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 the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...

Insarsky District Insarsky District (; , ''Inzaroń ajmak''; , ''Inesaro buje'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Republic of Mordovia, Article 63 and municipalLaw #119-Z district (raion), one of the twenty-two in the Republic of Mordovia, Russia. It i ...

of the

Republic of Mordovia Mordovia ( ),; Moksha and officially the Republic of Mordovia,; ; is a republic of Russia, situated in Eastern Europe. Its capital is the city of Saransk. As of the 2010 Census, the population of the republic was 834,755. Ethnic Russians ( ...

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, located at the

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of the Issa and Insarka Rivers, southwest of

Saransk Saransk (, ); ; is the capital city of Mordovia, Russia, as well as its financial and economic centre. It is located in the Volga River, Volga drainage basin, basin at the confluence of the Saranka and Insar Rivers, about east of Moscow. Sar ...

, the

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of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 8,687.

History

It was founded in 1648 as a fortress and a ''

posad A posad ( Russian and ) was a type of settlement in East Slavic lands between the 10th to 15th centuries, it was often surrounded by ramparts and a moat, adjoining a town or a kremlin, but outside of it, or adjoining a monastery. The posad wa ...

''. Town status was granted to it in 1780; it was demoted to a rural locality in 1926. Town status was re-granted again in 1958.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Insar serves as the

.Law #7-Z As an administrative division, it is, together with one rural locality (the settlement of Zarya), incorporated within Insarsky District as the

town of district significance Town of district significance is an administrative division of a district in a federal subject of Russia. It is equal in status to a selsoviet or an urban-type settlement of district significance, but is organized around a town (as opposed to a ...

of Insar. As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Insar is incorporated within Insarsky Municipal District as Insar Urban Settlement.Law #119-Z

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External links

Official website of Insar

Insar Business Directory
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