Uryupinsk
| Uryupinsk (English) Урюпинск (Russian) |
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.svg) Location of Volgograd Oblast in Russia |
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| Administrative status (as of February 2010) | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Volgograd Oblast |
| Administratively subordinated to | town of oblast significance of Uryupinsk |
| Administrative center of | Uryupinsky District, town of oblast significance of Uryupinsk |
| Municipal status (as of February 2005) | |
| Urban okrug | Uryupinsk Urban Okrug |
| Administrative center of | Uryupinsk Urban Okrug, Uryupinsky Municipal District |
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| Population (2010 Census) | 41,590 inhabitants |
| Time zone | MSK (UTC+03:00) |
| Founded | late 14th–early 15th century |
| Town status since | 1929 |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 84442 |
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Uryupinsk (Russian: Урю́пинск) is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located 340 kilometers (210 mi) northwest of Volgograd on the Khopyor River. Population: 41,590 (2010 Census);41,960 (2002 Census);42,954 (1989 Census).
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" (uryupa). 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.
The name of this town is known to many Russian people as a synonym for "backwater town". This usage became widespread after the popular Soviet film Destiny of a Man. The film was based on a short story by Mikhail Sholokhov, and Uryupinsk was the place of the action, shown as an inconspicuous provincial town.
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 of 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.
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