Alatyr (town)

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Alatyr (Russian: Алаты́рь, Chuvash: Улатăр) is a town in the Chuvash Republic, Russia, located on the Sura River at its confluence with the Alatyr River. Population: 43,161 (2002 Census); 43,000 (1968).

Alatyr is one of the oldest towns in Chuvashia. It was founded in 1552 as a fortified outpost and granted town status in 1780. Alatyr gained economic importance in 1894 after to the construction of the Moscow—Ryazan—Kazan railroad.


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Capital: Cheboksary

Alatyr | Kanash | Kozlovka | Mariinsky Posad | Novocheboksarsk | Shumerlya | Tsivilsk | Yadrin


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