Nurlat is a town in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Kondurcha River

Kondurcha River

The Kondurcha is a river in Samara Oblast and Tatarstan, Russian Federation, a right-bank tributary of the Sok River. Its length is 294 km and its drainage basin is 4,360 km². It origins in Samara Oblast and falls to the Sok in Samara Oblast.Major tributaries are Shlama, Lipovka Rivers. The...

, 268 kilometres (166.5 mi) southeast of Kazan

Kazan

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. It serves as the administrative center of Nurlatsky District, although it is not administratively a part of it. Population:

Nurlat was formerly known as Nurlat-Oktyabrsky.

It was founded in 1905 as a settlement around a railway station

Train station

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. Town status was granted to it in 1961.

There is an airport in Nurlat.