Agryz is a town and the administrative center of Agryzsky District

Agryzsky District

Agryzsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the forty-three in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. It is located in the northeast portion of the republic on the bank of the Izh River. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Agryz...

 of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Izh River

Izh River

The Izh is a river in Udmurtia and Tatarstan, Russian Federation, a right-bank tributary of the Kama River. Its length is 226 km and its drainage basin is 8,478 km²...

 (Volga

Volga River

The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed. It flows through central Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia. Out of the twenty largest cities of Russia, eleven, including the capital Moscow, are situated in the Volga's drainage...

's basin

Drainage basin

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), 304 kilometres (188.9 mi) east of Kazan

Kazan

Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...

. Population:

It was founded as a settlement around Agryz railway station

Train station

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 (which opened in 1915) due to the construction of the Kazan–Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...

 railroad. It was granted town status in 1938.

Notable people

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