Uren () is a

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and the

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Urensky District Urensky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the forty in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.Order #3-od Municipally, it is incorporated as Urensky Municipal District.Resolution #670 It is located in the north of the oblast. The ...

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,119,115 as of the 2021 Ru ...

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, located on the right bank of the Usta River (

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's basin), northeast of

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...

, the administrative center of the

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. It has population:

History

It was first mentioned in 1719. It was granted

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

status in 1959 and town status in 1973.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Uren serves as the

.Order #3-od As an administrative division, it is, together with two rural localities, incorporated within Urensky 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 Uren. As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Uren is incorporated within Urensky Municipal District as Uren Urban Settlement.Law #148-Z

Transportation

There is a railway station in the town, through which the trans-Siberian railroad passes. The town also lies on Road R159.

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=December 2012 Cities and towns in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Urensky District Varnavinsky Uyezd Populated places established in 1719 Former urban-type settlements of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast