Sentervorri

Sentervorri (Chuv. Sėntėrvŏrri, Finn. Söntörvöry, Russ. Сундыр, EMari. Shyndyr-Ola) is a Uralican city located in Chuvashia on the south bank of the Volga River, 36 kilometres downstream of Cheboksary and roughly across the river from the Mari El town of Kokshaysk. The plan to incorporate it fully into the Intra-Uralican Highway Network has been ongoing since it was declared a city in mid-2010 - the Second Unjust War and a few other things have caused delays in the process, but this mainly pertains to the construction of the Uralo-Altaic Bridge over the Volga.

In spite of not being directly in the highway system yet, the city boasts a fairly large transportation industry, mainly pertaining to roadbuilding materials and equipment. There is also a large food production market and a multi-purpose distillery in the city. Finally, there is a small print and publishing industry in the city.

The pronunciation of the name of the city in Chuvash is /ˌsøntørvər:ˈi/, while in Uralican Spoken English, it is /sʌntɚvr:i/, which displays the quirky USE tendency to freely variate between trilled and rhotic "r" sounds.

Culture
Although the current name has a Chuvash form, the city name is actually Mari in origin, derived from the word "Shyndyr," meaning roughly "river's edge." From this name came Sundyr, the original official name of the settlement and the current Russian name. The renaming of the town to Mariinsky Posad was part of a plan by local merchants and industrialists to gain a merchant guild despite lacking sufficient land. So they offered to rename it after Tsar Aleksandr II's wife, Maria Aleksandrovna, and build an almshouse in her name. It was renamed to the Chuvash name in 2007.

It should come as no surprise that the population is ethnically diverse, with Russians, Chuvashes, Mari, and Finns existing in almost equal numbers in the city. There are also minorities of Tatars and Estonians. The average number of languages spoken by a "Sundyrin" is roughly six and a half, one of the highest average numbers for any city in Uralica. Of these six, English, Finnish, Russian, and Chuvash are absolute universals, and only about six and a half percent of the population doesn't speak Eastern Mari.

There is a decent-sized historical/ethnographic museum in the city, combining everything known about the city from historical records (dating back to 1620) with ethnographic data of both Chuvash and Mari peoples. There is also an art gallery, a Chuvash cultural centre, and a museum dedicated to the history of the old bourgeois lifestyle. Finally, the city square has a statue of Yakov Nikolayev, a World War II guerrilla fighter. When asked why a Communist-era war hero was there, a local gave two reasons that are interrelated - he is Chuvash, and he fought and died in resisting Nazi occupation during the war.

Neighbourhoods and Suburbs

 * Novinskoye
 * Adachkino
 * Neryadovo (subordinate hamlet)