Uryupinsk
Uryupinsk is a types of [inhabited localities in Russia|town] in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Volgograd on the Khopyor River. Population:
Etymology
There are two theories of the historical background for the town's name. One is that it is from name of a Tartar prince Uryup, who got bogged down in a swamp near this location, during a fight with Yermak and got captured. Another is that it is from either the family name Uryupin or the word "урюпа". According to the 1866 Explanatory Dictionary of the Living [Great Russian Language] by Vladimir Dal, this archaic word means untidy person, which probably in this context characterizes not a person, but the swampy area.History
Founded in the late 14th–early 15th century as Uryupin, it was a border outpost of the Principality of Ryazan, populated by Don Cossacks. Since 1857, it is the stanitsa Uryupinskaya and home of Pokrovskaya Fair, a center for trade on the southeastern side of the East European Plain. It was renamed Uryupinsk and granted town status in 1929.According to the alphabetical list of settlements of the Donskoy Army region in 1915: 5,782 men and 6,316 women lived in the village, the land allotment of the village amounted to 25,354 tithes of land, the office of the district ataman, the district zemsky council, the district leader of the nobility, the postal and telegraph office, a real school, a women's gymnasium, a city school, a women's 4th grade a school, two two-class schools, two parish schools, a military craft school, a district hospital, a committee of the Russian Red Cross Society, a fire brigade, a commercial and industrial mutual credit society, the Ust-Medveditsky District Court, investigators of three sites, a notary, a prison and other officials and institutions
In 1921, the village was incorporated into the Tsaritsyn province. Since 1928, it has been the administrative center of the Uryupinsky district of the Khopersky district The Lower Volga Region
It is assumed that it is listed in the historical List of [Russian Cities, Near and Far|List of Ruthenian Cities Far and Near] under the name "Uryupesk".
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Uryupinsk serves as the administrative center of Uryupinsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the "city of [federal subject significance|town of oblast significance] of Uryupinsk"—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the administrative divisions of [Volgograd Oblast|districts]. As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Uryupinsk is incorporated as Uryupinsk Urban Okrug.Economy
Uryupinsk is an industrial center with heavy industries such as agricultural machinery and loading equipment. The city also contains factories of light industry production, paper production plant, and a packing plant.Another major industry involving the outlying areas of the town is goat farming and goat leather production. Because of its mild southern climate, the region is a good area for agriculture, and there are many agricultural processing factories in the region, specializing mainly in beef, oil and butter production.
Notable people
- Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, grandson of Joseph Stalin
- Evgeny Maleev, Soviet paleontologist who discovered Therizinosaurus