Sengiley is a town and the administrative center of Sengileyevsky District

Sengileyevsky District

Sengileyevsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 21 in Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia....

 of Ulyanovsk Oblast

Ulyanovsk Oblast

Ulyanovsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It is located in the Volga Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Ulyanovsk...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located on the right bank of Kuybyshev Reservoir 72 kilometres (44.7 mi) south of Ulyanovsk

Ulyanovsk

Ulyanovsk The city is the birthplace of Vladimir Lenin , for whom it is named.-History:Simbirsk was founded in 1648 by the boyar Bogdan Khitrovo. The fort of "Simbirsk" was strategically placed on a hill on the Western bank of the Volga River...

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

Sloboda

Sloboda was a kind of settlement in the history of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The name is derived from the early Slavic word for "freedom" and may be vaguely translated as "free settlement"....

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 reorganized into the town of Sengiley, named for its position on the river then of the same name (now Sengileyka, a tributary of the Volga), which comes from Erzya

Erzya language

The Erzya language is spoken by about 500,000 people in the northern and eastern and north-western parts of the Republic of Mordovia and adjacent regions of Nizhniy Novgorod, Chuvashia, Penza, Samara, Saratov, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan in Russia...

 syang 'tributary' and lei 'river.'

In 1925, Sengiley was demoted in status to a rural locality, but it was granted urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

status in 1925. Town status was granted again in 1943.

External links

• Unofficial website of Sengiley and Sengileysky District