Uryupinsk
Uryupinsk () is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Volgograd on the Khopyor River. Population:
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- Uryupinsk
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- Урюпинск
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- Uryupinsk government house.jpg
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- Government building in Uryupinsk
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- Volgograd Oblast
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- town of oblast significance of Uryupinsk
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- Uryupinsky District
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- town of oblast significance of Uryupinsk
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- Town
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- Etymology
- History
- Administrative and municipal status
- Climate
- Economy
- Notable people
- In popular culture
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Uryupinsk () is a town in Volgograd Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Volgograd on the Khopyor River. Population:
==Etymology== There are two theories of the historical background for the town's name. One is that it is from name of a Tartar prince Uryup, who got bogged down in a swamp near this location, during a fight with Yermak and got captured. Another is that it is from either the family name Uryupin or the word "" (). According to the 1866 Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language by Vladimir Dal, this archaic word means untidy person, which probably in this context characterizes not a person, but the swampy area.