Sengiley (russian: Сенгиле́й) 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 ...

and 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 A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...

of Sengileyevsky District in

Ulyanovsk Oblast Ulyanovsk Oblast (russian: Ульяновская область, ''Ul’janovskaja oblast’'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It is located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Ulyanovsk. Populatio ...

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, located on the right bank of

Kuybyshev Reservoir Kuybyshev Reservoir or Kuybyshevskoye Reservoir (russian: Ку́йбышевское водохрани́лище, Kuybyshevskoye Vodokhranilishche), sometimes called Samara Reservoir and informally called Kuybyshev Sea, is a reservoir of ...

, south of

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 (bor ...

, the administrative center of the

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. Population:

History

It was founded in 1666 as a defensive military outpost against nomadic raids. Several ''

sloboda A sloboda ( rus, слобода́, p=sləbɐˈda) was a kind of settlement in the history of the Old Russian regions Povolzhye, Central Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The name is derived from the early Slavic word for " freedom" and may be loose ...

s'' later formed around the outpost and in the beginning of the 18th century the ''slobodas'' of Stanichnaya, Butyrskaya, and Vybornaya merged into the village of Pokrovskoye (), named for a Church of the Intercession. In 1780, it was chartered as the town of Sengiley; named for its position on the river then of the same name (now the Sengileyka, a

tributary A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainag ...

of the

Volga The Volga (; russian: Во́лга, a=Ru-Волга.ogg, p=ˈvoɫɡə) is the longest river in Europe. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catchm ...

), which comes from Erzya words ''syang'', meaning ''tributary'' and ''lei'', meaning ''river''.Е. М. Поспелов. "Географические названия мира". Москва, 1998, p. 379. In 1925, Sengiley was demoted in status to that of a rural locality, but was granted

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

status later that year. Town status was granted to it again in 1943.

Culture

There is a local museum. It has exhibits in various areas including fine arts and local history.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Sengiley serves as the

of Sengileyevsky District.Law #126-ZO As an administrative division, it is, together with the work settlement of

Tsemzavod Tsemzavod () is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Sengileyevsky District Sengileyevsky District (russian: Сенгилеевский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #126-ZO and municipalLaw #043-ZO district ( raion), one of ...

, incorporated within Sengileyevsky 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 Sengiley. As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Sengiley is incorporated within Sengileyevsky Municipal District as Sengileyevskoye Urban Settlement.Law #043-ZO

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* * {{Authority control Cities and towns in Ulyanovsk Oblast Populated places on the Volga Populated places established in 1666 1666 establishments in Russia Sengileyevsky Uyezd