Sarapul ( Udmurt and ) is a

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and a river port in 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 on the right bank of the

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, southeast 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 ...

, the capital of the republic. Population:

History

Sarapul is one of the oldest cities of the Kama region. It was first mentioned in a 1596 population audit book as the village () of (, 'Ascension' f Christ, later known as Sarapul: "in Kazansky Uyezd in the upper Kama River ... in Sarapul and Siva people fish". Apparently, here ''Sarapul'' is the name of a section of the river, as well as the entire area along its shores. It is believed that the name of this area comes from the word () which in Chuvash means 'yellow fish', or

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, which was in abundance here. Later, however, other versions of the origin of the name were considered. In particular, one of them says that the word formed by the merger of two words: , which in one of the Siberian dialects means 'money', and , a small copper coin, thus meaning 'place of money'. It was chartered in 1780"Sarapul" in '' The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 10, p. 447. and by the end of the 18th century had grown into a merchant town with developed

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manufacturing industry. The city of Sarapul was one of the residence centers of the Udmurt Jews,Altyntsev A.V., "The Concept of Love in Ashkenazim of Udmurtia and Tatarstan", Nauka Udmurtii. 2013. № 4 (66), p. 131. (Алтынцев А.В.
"Чувство любви в понимании евреев-ашкенази Удмуртии и Татарстана".
Наука Удмуртии. 2013. №4. С. 131: Комментарии.) who spoke Udmurtish

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. In the lexicon of this dialect there was a noticeable number of Udmurt and Tatar loan words.Гольдберг-Алтынцев А.В., "Краткий этнографический обзор группы ашкеназских евреев в Алнашском районе Удмуртской Республики / пер. с англ. яз. А.Й. Каца."
Jewish studies in the Udmurt Republic: Online. Part 1. Edited by A. Greenberg. February 27, 2015 published. P. 3.

Geography

Climate

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as the city of republic significance of Sarapul—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the

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.Law #46-RZ As a municipal division, the city of republic significance of Sarapul is incorporated as Sarapul Urban Okrug.Law #76-RZ

Economy

Currently, Sarapul is the second most important industrial town in the republic after

Honors

The

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26851 Sarapul was named by astronomer Eric Elst in the city's honor on June 1, 2007.NASA
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Notable people

* Ruslan Avleev, basketball player * Zulya Kamalova, singer * Yevgeny Kychanov, historian * Peter Palchinsky, engineer * Vladimir Sarayev, football player * Oleg Zhakov, actor

References

Notes

Sources

* * *This article incorporates material from the Russian Wikipedia

External links

Website of Sarapul

Website Sarapul production of metal products
{{Authority control Cities and towns in Udmurtia Sarapulsky Uyezd Populated places on the Kama River