Chur (Udmurtia)

The village was founded in 1861 . At that time, a prison for political prisoners was built here, next to which its workers began to settle. In 1910, a narrow-gauge Uvinsko-Uzginsky railway was laid near the prison, the construction of which involved local politicians. As a result of construction near the prison, a railway station appeared, which received the name Chur - along a forest river flowing nearby. Soon, railwaymen and loggers began to settle at the station; on the eve of World War I , forestry was established here.

During the Civil War, the station was almost completely destroyed by the White Guards, but after the battle was over it was soon restored, and the village began to develop rapidly. The main enterprise of Chur was the timber industry. In the pre-war period, a store, a school, a hospital were built at the station, the first apartment buildings for logging workers appeared. In 1938, the village was badly damaged by a forest fire.

During the Great Patriotic War , construction began on the Izhevsk-Balezino broad - gauge railway , designed to connect the northern and southern passages of the Trans-Siberian Railway in a short way. In Chur, a new road replaced the narrow-gauge Uzgin branch. In March 1943, Chur received the status of an urban-type settlement .

In 1952, a new stone station was built at the station, while a water tower was under construction for the needs of the railway. In 1958, due to the lack of a logging fund, the timber industry enterprise was closed. At its base, a republican tuberculosis hospital was opened.

In 1976, construction began on the Churovsky plant of silicate wall materials . The plant was commissioned in 1982 and since then has been a city-forming enterprise of the village ^[2] .

In 1991, Chur was first transformed into a village of rural type ^[3] , and in October 2004 - into a village.

The village is located on the Chur River in the central part of the Yakshur-Bodinsky district.

National composition ( 2002 ): Russians - 66.1%, Udmurts - 25.2%, Tatars - 5.8%. ^[8]

In the village there is a station Chur of the Balezinsky direction of the Izhevsk region of the Gorky Railway. From the village to the east, there is also a highway to the R-321 highway , the distance to the R-321 is about 12.3 km.

Chur is connected with the capital of Udmurtia and the regional center by regular bus routes (No. 324 and No. 125). Suburban trains running through the Chur station connect the village with Izhevsk and large regional centers of the republic (the villages of Igra and Balezino).