Uryupinsk

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 "{{lang|ru|урюпа}}" ({{transliteration|ru|uryupa}}). 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.

The name of this town is known to many Russian people as a synonym for "backwater town". This usage became widespread after the popular Soviet film Destiny of a Man. The film was based on a short story by Mikhail Sholokhov, and Uryupinsk was the place of the action, shown as an inconspicuous provincial town.

Founded in the late 14th–early 15th century as Uryupin, it was a border outpost of the Principality of Ryazan, populated by Don Cossacks.{{Cite web |last=Новости |first=Р. И. А. |date=2024-06-10 |title=Урюпинск: город-символ |url=https://ria.ru/20100723/257715595.html |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=РИА Новости |language=ru}} Since 1857, it is the stanitsa Uryupinskaya and home of Pokrovskaya Fair, a center for trade on the southeastern side of the East European Plain.{{Cite web |title=Покровская ярмарка |url=https://vpravda.ru/obshchestvo/pokrovskaya-yarmarka-595/}} It was renamed Uryupinsk and granted town status in 1929.{{Cite web |title=ИСТОРИЯ АДМИНИСТРАТИВНО-ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНОГО ДЕЛЕНИЯ Сталинградского (НижнеВОЛЖСКОГО) края. 1928–1936 гг.|url=http://volga.rusarchives.ru/atd/atd2.pdf }}

According to the alphabetical list of settlements of the Donskoy Army region in 1915: 5,782 men and 6,316 women lived in the village, the land allotment of the village amounted to 25,354 tithes of land, the office of the district ataman, the district zemsky council, the district leader of the nobility, the postal and telegraph office, a real school, a women's gymnasium, a city school, a women's 4th grade a school, two two-class schools, two parish schools, a military craft school, a district hospital, a committee of the Russian Red Cross Society, a fire brigade, a commercial and industrial mutual credit society, the Ust-Medveditsky District Court, investigators of three sites, a notary, a prison and other officials and institutions{{Cite web |last=ИнфоРост |first=Н. П. |title=ГПИБ {{!}} Алфавитный список населенных мест Области Войска Донского. - Новочеркасск, 1915. |url=http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/46056-alfavitnyy-spisok-naselennyh-mest-oblasti-voyska-donskogo-novocherkassk-1915 |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=elib.shpl.ru}}

In 1921, the village was incorporated into the Tsaritsyn province. Since 1928, it has been the administrative center of the Uryupinsky district of the Khopersky district (abolished in 1930) The Lower Volga Region{{Cite web |title=История административно – территориального деления Волгоградской (Сталинградской) области. 1936 – 2007 гг. Справочник. |url=https://gavo.volgograd.ru/documents/spravochniki/atd.php}}

It is assumed that it is listed in the historical List of Ruthenian Cities Far and Near under the name "Uryupesk" (Урюпеск).[http://litopys.org.ua/rizne/spysok/spys04.htm М. Н. Тихомиров. Список русских городов дальних и ближних]

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Uryupinsk serves as the administrative center of Uryupinsky District,{{OKATO reference|18 254}} even though it is not a part of it.Law #139-OD As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the "town of oblast significance of Uryupinsk"—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Uryupinsk is incorporated as Uryupinsk Urban Okrug.Law #1008-OD

{{Weather box

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|Jan record high C = 11.1

|Feb record high C = 12.2

|Mar record high C = 22.4

|Apr record high C = 30.0

|May record high C = 36.2

|Jun record high C = 39.5

|Jul record high C = 42.1

|Aug record high C = 41.1

|Sep record high C = 35.5

|Oct record high C = 29.1

|Nov record high C = 19.0

|Dec record high C = 12.3

|Jan high C = -3.6

|Feb high C = -2.9

|Mar high C = 3.6

|Apr high C = 15.2

|May high C = 22.7

|Jun high C = 26.5

|Jul high C = 28.7

|Aug high C = 28.1

|Sep high C = 21.3

|Oct high C = 12.6

|Nov high C = 3.4

|Dec high C = -2.0

|Jan mean C = -6.6

|Feb mean C = -6.4

|Mar mean C = -0.8

|Apr mean C = 8.8

|May mean C = 15.9

|Jun mean C = 19.9

|Jul mean C = 21.9

|Aug mean C = 20.8

|Sep mean C = 14.5

|Oct mean C = 7.6

|Nov mean C = 0.2

|Dec mean C = -4.8

|Jan low C = -9.4

|Feb low C = -9.6

|Mar low C = -4.3

|Apr low C = 3.2

|May low C = 9.2

|Jun low C = 13.3

|Jul low C = 15.2

|Aug low C = 13.7

|Sep low C = 8.6

|Oct low C = 3.5

|Nov low C = -2.4

|Dec low C = -7.5

|Jan record low C = -37.7

|Feb record low C = -40.5

|Mar record low C = -33.5

|Apr record low C = -16.8

|May record low C = -5.0

|Jun record low C = 0.5

|Jul record low C = 4.7

|Aug record low C = 1.8

|Sep record low C = -6.2

|Oct record low C = -15.1

|Nov record low C = -26.2

|Dec record low C = -38.4

|Jan precipitation mm = 30

|Feb precipitation mm = 25

|Mar precipitation mm = 25

|Apr precipitation mm = 27

|May precipitation mm = 38

|Jun precipitation mm = 52

|Jul precipitation mm = 51

|Aug precipitation mm = 33

|Sep precipitation mm = 43

|Oct precipitation mm = 34

|Nov precipitation mm = 32

|Dec precipitation mm = 32

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File:Uryupinsk Capra monument.jpg

Uryupinsk is an industrial center with heavy industries such as agricultural machinery (harvesting machines) and loading equipment (a large crane-making plant is located here). The city also contains factories of light industry production (such as knitted fabric, shoe fabric, and furniture fabric), paper production plant, and a packing plant.

Another major industry involving the outlying areas of the town is goat farming and goat leather production. Because of its mild southern climate, the region is a good area for agriculture, and there are many agricultural processing factories in the region, specializing mainly in beef, oil and butter production.

• Yevgeny Dzhugashvili

The final part of the short story "Fate of a Man" by Mikhail Sholokhov takes place in Uryupinsk. However the town got a widespread fame due to the following students' joke, to the extent that a monument to the joke was unveiled there:[https://rg.ru/2019/04/19/reg-ufo/v-uriupinske-postavili-pamiatnik-anekdotu.html В Урюпинске поставили памятник анекдоту]

{{bquote|At a history exam a professor asks: "Tell me about the Spartacus uprising." - Not a word from the student. - "Well, what do you know about the October Revolution?" - Same response. - "Now, do you know the name Lenin at least?" - "No" - The professor is speechless... "Where are you from, such a wonderful piece?" - "From Uryupinsk."... Later the professor recounts the story to the colleagues and muses "Oh, if only I could drop everything and leave to Uryupinsk!"}}

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