Sharya

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Template:Infobox Russian inhabited locality Sharya (Template:Langx) is a town in Kostroma Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Vetluga River, Template:Convert northeast of Kostroma, the administrative center of the oblast.

Population: Template:Ru-census Template:Ru-census2002 Template:Su-census1989 26,000 (1974).

History

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Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Sharya serves as the administrative center of Sharyinsky District,[1] despite not being part of it.[2] As an administrative division, it is, together with the urban-type settlement of Vetluzhsky and three rural localities,[3] incorporated separately as the town of oblast significance of Sharya—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[1] As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Sharya is incorporated as Sharya Urban Okrug.[4]

Twin towns and sister cities

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Sharya has one sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International (SCI):

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  1. a b Law #112-4-ZKO
  2. Resolution #133-a
  3. The village of Kostino under the administrative jurisdiction of Sharya was abolished by Resolution #586 of October 6, 2004. This Resolution was abrogated by Resolution #359 of August 17, 2007; however, the village had not been reinstated, nor is it included into the Registry of Inhabited Localities of Kostroma Oblast.
  4. Law #237-ZKO