Sursk

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Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Sursk
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Сурск
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position: top
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Penza Oblast
Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur: Gorodishchensky District
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur: Sursk
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type: Town of district significance
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of: town of district significance of Sursk
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat: Town
Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur: Gorodishchensky Municipal District
Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur: Sursk Urban Settlement
Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of: Sursk Urban Settlement
Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census: 7034
Russian inhabited locality.established_date: 1860
Russian inhabited locality.current_cat_date: 1953
Russian inhabited locality.postal_codes: 442300, 442301

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Official name: Никольский хутор
Population: 6034
Area: 5
Elevation: 220
Dialing code: 84158

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inception: 1849-01-01
postal code: 442300
native label: Сурск

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Sursk () is a town in Gorodishchensky District of Penza Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Sura River, east of Penza, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:

==History== It was founded c. 1860 as the village of Nikolsky Khutor (). In 1953, it was granted town status and renamed Sursk (after the Sura River).