Kez () is a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically describ ...

(a settlement) 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 ...

Kezsky District Kezsky District (; , ''Kez joros'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Udmurt Republic and municipalLaw #66-RZ district (raion), one of the twenty-five in the Udmurt Republic, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the republic. The area o ...

of the

Udmurt Republic Udmurtia, officially the Udmurt Republic, is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is administratively part of the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Izhevsk. It was established as the Udmurt (until 1931 — Vots ...

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, located northeast of

Izhevsk Izhevsk or Ijevsk (, ; , or ) is the capital city of Udmurtia, Russia. It is situated along the Izh River, west of the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. It is the 21st-largest city in Russia, and the most populous in Udmurtia, with over 600,000 ...

. Population:

History

It was founded in 1895 due to the construction of a railway. It served as the administrative center of the district since 1929. 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 1942, but was demoted back to a rural locality in 2008.

Economy

There are several light and food industry companies; among them a cheese factory ("Kezsky syrzavod"). The settlement serves as a railway station on the Kirov–

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line.

References

Rural localities in Udmurtia {{Udmurtia-geo-stub Former urban-type settlements of Udmurtia