Irbit

E657607

Irbit is a historic town in Russia’s Ural region, formerly known as a major trade and fair center.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Irbit canonical 1
Irbit Urban Okrug 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf populated place in Russia
town
urban locality
administrativeCenterOf Irbit Urban Okrug
linked to: Irbit
climate continental climate
country Russia
currentJurisdiction Russian Federation
linked to: Russia
economicActivity agriculture
industry
trade
fairImportance second only to Nizhny Novgorod Fair in Imperial Russia
foundedAsSettlement 17th century
grantedTownStatus 18th century
hasCulturalHeritage 19th-century merchant houses
historic fairgrounds
hasEducationalInstitution vocational schools
hasHealthcareFacility central district hospital
hasIndustry food processing
light industry
motorcycle manufacturing
hasMuseum local history museum
hasPopulation around 35,000 (early 21st century)
hasPostalCodePrefix 624
historicalImportancePeak 19th century
historicalRegion Urals
linked to: Ural Mountains
historicalRole major fair center
major trade center
hosts Irbit State Motorcycle Museum
knownFor Irbit Fair
languageMajority Russian
locatedEastOf Yekaterinburg
locatedIn Sverdlovsk Oblast
Ural region
locatedOnRiver Nitsa River
linked to: Mechetlja River
partOf Russian Empire (historically)
linked to: Russian Empire

Soviet Union (historically)
linked to: Soviet Union
regionType industrial-agrarian
religionHistoricalMajority Russian Orthodoxy
status town of oblast significance
timeZone Yekaterinburg Time
transportConnection regional roads to Yekaterinburg
utcOffset +5
vehicleRegistrationCodeRegion 66 (Sverdlovsk Oblast)
writingSystem Cyrillic
linked to: Cyrillic script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sverdlovsk Oblast hasCity Irbit
Irbit administrativeCenterOf Irbit Urban Okrug
linked to: Irbit