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Arzamas is a city
Types of settlements in Russia

The classification system of the types of Human settlement in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared to the classification systems in other countries....
 in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. With a population of 1.3 million, Nizhny Novgorod is the largest city of the oblast and the fourth largest city of the Russian Federation, after Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Novosibirsk....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, located on the Tyosha River
Tyosha River

Tyosha River is a river in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia, a right tributary of the Oka River. The length of the river is 311 km. The area of its basin is 7,800 km?....
 (a tributary
Tributary

A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a Mainstem river. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea. Tributaries and the mainstem river serve to drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater by leading the water out into an ocean or some other large body of water....
 of the Oka River
Oka River

Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol Oblast, Tula Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Moscow Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Vladimir Oblast and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga....
), 410 km east of Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
. Its geographical coordinates are . Population: 109,432 (2002 Census
Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
); 108,951 (1989 Census
Soviet Census (1989)

The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive Soviet Census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics....
).

History
Arzamas was founded in 1578 by Ivan the Terrible in the lands populated at the time by the Mordvin people
Mordvin people

The Mordvins are among the List of larger indigenous peoples of Russia. They speak languages of the Volga-Finnic languages branch of the Finno-Ugric language family....
. By 1737 more than 7,000 people lived in Arzamas and the town became a major transit center on the route from Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 to eastern parts of Russia.






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Arzamas is a city
Types of settlements in Russia

The classification system of the types of Human settlement in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared to the classification systems in other countries....
 in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. With a population of 1.3 million, Nizhny Novgorod is the largest city of the oblast and the fourth largest city of the Russian Federation, after Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Novosibirsk....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, located on the Tyosha River
Tyosha River

Tyosha River is a river in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in Russia, a right tributary of the Oka River. The length of the river is 311 km. The area of its basin is 7,800 km?....
 (a tributary
Tributary

A tributary is a stream or river which flows into a Mainstem river. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea. Tributaries and the mainstem river serve to drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater by leading the water out into an ocean or some other large body of water....
 of the Oka River
Oka River

Oka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol Oblast, Tula Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Moscow Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Vladimir Oblast and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga....
), 410 km east of Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
. Its geographical coordinates are . Population: 109,432 (2002 Census
Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
); 108,951 (1989 Census
Soviet Census (1989)

The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive Soviet Census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics....
).

History


Arzamas was founded in 1578 by Ivan the Terrible in the lands populated at the time by the Mordvin people
Mordvin people

The Mordvins are among the List of larger indigenous peoples of Russia. They speak languages of the Volga-Finnic languages branch of the Finno-Ugric language family....
. By 1737 more than 7,000 people lived in Arzamas and the town became a major transit center on the route from Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
 to eastern parts of Russia. It was known for its geese
Domesticated goose

Domestic geese are domesticated Grey geese kept as poultry for their meat, eggs, and down feathers since ancient times....
 and onion
Onion

Onion is a term used for many plants in the genus Allium. They are known by the common name "onion" but, used without qualifiers, it usually refers to Allium cepa....
s as well as leather crafts.

Catherine the Great in 1781 gave Arzamas an official city status and its own coat of arms based on the colors of the Arzamas regiment. In the early 19th century Arzamas had over twenty churches and cathedrals, the foremost being the Resurrection Cathedral. It was built in the Empire style to commemorate the Russian victory over Napoleon in 1812.

Alexander Stupin art school was located in Arzamas between 1802 and 1862 and many famous Russian artists studied there, including Vasily Perov
Vasily Perov

Vasily Grigorevich Perov was a Russian painter and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki, a group of Russian realism painters.Vasily Perov was born January 2 1834 in Tobolsk, being the illegitimare son of procurator, baron Grigory Karlovich Kridener....
.

In 1954-1957 Arzamas was the center of Arzamas Oblast, a short-lived administrative unit that was split off Gorky Oblast
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. With a population of 1.3 million, Nizhny Novgorod is the largest city of the oblast and the fourth largest city of the Russian Federation, after Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Novosibirsk....
 and later merged back into it.

Economy

Local industry includes Arzamas Machine-building Plant , a manufacturer of military and specialized civilian automotive vehicles. It is now part of the GAZ
GAZ

GAZ or Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod , translated as Gorky Automobile Plant , started in 1929 as NNAZ, a cooperation between Ford Motor Company and the Soviet Union....
 holding.

Sister cities

  • Popovo, Bulgaria.
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    Ruma

    Ruma is a town and municipality located in Vojvodina, Serbia at . In 2002 the town had a total population of 32,229, while Ruma municipality had a population of 60,006....
    , Serbia
    Serbia

    Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
    .
  • Valozhyn, Belarus
    Belarus

    Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the north and east, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the north....
    .


Famous people

  • Patriarch Sergius I of Moscow
    Patriarch Sergius I of Moscow

    Patriarch Sergius I was the 12th Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, from September 8,1943 until his death. He was also the de facto head of the Russian Orthodox Church as Patriarchal locum tenens in 1925-1943....


See also

  • Sarov
    Sarov

    Sarov is a closed town types of inhabited localities in Russia in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. Until 1995 it was known as Kremlyov ....
     (Arzamas-16)


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