Uren

a city (since 1973) and the administrative center of Uren’ Raion, Gorky Oblast, RSFSR. Uren’ is situated on the right bank of the Usta River of the Volga River basin. It has a railroad station on the Gorky-Kotel’nich line, 183 km northeast of Gorky, and it is a highway junction. The city’s factories include a timber-chemical plant, a flax-processing plant, a milk plant, a motor vehicle repair plant, a mixed feed plant, a brickyard, and a factory for the production of work clothes. Uren’ has an industrial pedagogical technicum.