Vyksa

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The world's first double curvature diagrid steel gridshell by Vladimir Shukhov (under construction), Vyksa, 1897
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Shukhov's diagrid hyperboloid tower in Vyksa

Vyksa (Template:Langx) is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Oka River, Script error: No such module "convert". southwest of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: Template:Ru-census2010 Template:Replace (2002 Census);[1] Template:Replace (1989 Soviet census).[2]

History

Vyksa was founded in 1765 and was granted town status in 1934.[3]

Etymology

From a substrate Finno-Ugric language (cf. Template:Langx 'flow').[4]

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with four work settlements and forty-three rural localities, incorporated as the town of oblast significance of Vyksa—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[5] As a municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Vyksa is incorporated as Vyksa Urban Okrug.[6]

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