Agryz

Agryz (Russian: Агры́з; Tatar: Әгерҗе, romanized: Ägerce) is a town and the administrative center of Agryzsky District in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Izh River (Volga's basin), 304 kilometers (189 mi) east of Kazan. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 19,300.^[3]

Agryz Агрыз
Town[1]
Other transcription(s)
• Tatar	Әгерҗе
Agryz railway station
Coat of arms
Location of Agryz
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Coordinates: 56°31′19″N 52°59′51″E
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Tatarstan[1]
Administrative district	Agryzsky District[1]
Founded	1915[2]
Town status since	August 28,[citation needed] 1938[2]
Elevation	90 m (300 ft)
Population  (2010 Census)[3]
• Total	19,300
Administrative status
• Capital of	Agryzsky District[1]
Municipal status
• Municipal district	Agryzsky Municipal District[4]
• Urban settlement	Agryz Urban Settlement[4]
• Capital of	Agryzsky Municipal District,[4] Agryz Urban Settlement[4]
Time zone	UTC+3 (MSK [5])
Postal code(s)[6]	422230, 422231, 422233, 422239
Dialing code(s)	+7 85551
OKTMO ID	92601101001

Agryz population

2010 Census	19,300[3]
2002 Census	18,620[7]
1989 Census	19,732[8]
1979 Census	20,137[9]

History

It was founded as a settlement serving the construction of the Kazan–Yekaterinburg railway.^[2] It was granted town status on August 28,^{[citation needed]} 1938.^[2]

Agryz was one of the residence centers of the Udmurt Jews, who spoke the Udmurt idiom of Yiddish (Udmurtish).^[10]

Agryzhan Tatars

The Agryzhan spelled out Agrizhan Tatar or Agryjan (Indian form), were the Muslim descendants of 51 Indian Hindu Punjabi Khatri Merchant and one Indian Muslim trader from North India mostly from Khatri caste, primarily from the Punjab, but also from Indian Merchants of Sindh and Rajasthan from the Marwari people, who settled in Astrakhan between 1636 and 1725, and called Astrakhan Indians this Men married with Buddhist Kalmyks, with local Muslim Tatar and Orthodox Christian Russian women.^[11] The families moved and lived then in the Agryz suburb and the descendants of these Indo-Turkic marriages were named after this suburb. The Agrizhan eventually assimilated with the Muslim Astrakhan Tatars. They speak Tatar and Russian, using Tatar natively and Russian as a secondary language. They know about their Indian Heritage. ^{[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]}

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Agryz serves as the administrative center of Agryzsky District, to which it is directly subordinated.^[1] As a municipal division, the town of Agryz is incorporated within Agryzsky Municipal District as Agryz Urban Settlement.^[4]

Notable people

• Asaf Abdrakhmanov (1918–2000), naval figure, Hero of the Soviet Union