Sengiley

Sengiley () is a toun an the admeenistrative center o Sengileyevsky Destrict o Ulyanovsk Oblast, Roushie, locatit on the richt bank o Kuybyshev Reservoir  sooth o Ulyanovsk. Population: 

History
It wis foondit in 1666 as a defensive military ootpost against nomadic raids. Several slobodas later formit aroond the ootpost, an in the beginnin o the 18t century the slobodas o Stanichnaya, Butyrskaya, an Vybornaya mergit intae the veelage o Pokrovskoye (), namit for a Kirk o the Intercession (). In 1780, it wis reorganizit intae the toun o Sengiley, namit for its poseetion on the river then o the same name (nou Sengileyka, a tributary o the Volga), which comes frae Erzya syang 'tributary' an lei 'river.'Е. М. Поспелов. "Географические названия мира" (Москва, 1998), p. 379.

In 1925, Sengiley wis demotit in status tae a rural locality, but it wis grantit urban-type settlement status in 1925. Toun status wis grantit again in 1943.

References

Freemit airtins
Unoffeecial wabsteid o Sengiley an Sengileysky Destrict  

Category:Ceeties an touns in Ulyanovsk Oblast
Category:Populatit places on the Volga
Category:Populatit places established in 1666