Shumerlya (russian: Шу́мерля; cv, Çĕмĕрле, ''Śĕmĕrle'') 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 ...
in the
Chuvash Republic,
Russia
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, located on the right bank of the
Sura River on the
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...
–
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 ...
highway. Population: 35,000 (1974).
History
Founded in 1916, it was granted town status in 1937.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Shumerlya serves as 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
Shumerlinsky District, even though it is not a part of it.
[Law #28] As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the
town of republic significance of Shumerlya—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the
districts.
As a
municipal division, the town of republic significance of Shumerlya is incorporated as Shumerlya Urban Okrug.
[Law #37]
Notable residents
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Serhiy Bashkyrov (born 1959), Soviet and Ukrainian football player and coach
References
Notes
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Cities and towns in Chuvashia
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