Yurga

Yurga
Юрга
Building in Yurga
Building in Yurga
Flag of Yurga
Coat of arms of Yurga
Interactive map of Yurga
Yurga is located in Russia
Yurga
Yurga
Location of Yurga
Yurga is located in Kemerovo Oblast
Yurga
Yurga
Yurga (Kemerovo Oblast)
Coordinates: 55°43′23″N 84°53′10″E / 55.72306°N 84.88611°E / 55.72306; 84.88611
CountryRussia
Federal subjectKemerovo Oblast
Founded1886
Town status since1949
Elevation
150 m (490 ft)
Population
 • Total
81,533
 • Estimate 
(2025)
77,092 (−5.4%)
 • Rank203rd in 2010
 • Subordinated toYurga Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction
 • Capital ofYurginsky District, Yurga Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction
 • Urban okrugYurginsky Urban Okrug
 • Capital ofYurginsky Urban Okrug, Yurginsky Municipal District
Time zoneUTC+7 (MSK+4 Edit this on Wikidata)
Postal code
652050Edit this on Wikidata
OKTMO ID32749000001
Websiteyurga.org

Yurga (Russian: Юрга́) is a town in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on the Tom River and the Trans-Siberian Railway. The population is 77 thousand people in 2025.

History

It was founded in 1886.[citation needed] Work settlement status was granted to it in 1942; town status was granted in 1949.

Soviet Germans were deported to Yurga in 1941. A memorial was erected in their memory in the German graveyard in 2000.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Yurga serves as the administrative center of Yurginsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as Yurga Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, Yurga Town Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporated as Yurginsky Urban Okrug.

Military

The 74th Motor Rifle Brigade of the Russian Ground Forces is based here.

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Law #215-OZ
  2. 1 2 "General Information" (in Russian). Retrieved January 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  4. ↑ Численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2025 года (in Russian), Moscow: Federal State Statistics Service, April 25, 2025, Wikidata Q133797648, archived from the original on April 26, 2026
  5. 1 2 3 4 Law #104-OZ
  6. ↑ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  7. ↑ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  8. ↑ rosstat 2025
  9. ↑ "YURGA cemetery [C]* "Victims of War" complex: Deported Germans & others [P] | Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag". en.mapofmemory.org. Retrieved October 6, 2026.

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