Agryz is a city of district subordination, the administrative center of Agryz district of Tatarstan.
The area is 8.6 km. The population of 18.6 thousand people (2005; in 1859 - 2 340, in 1890 - 2 758, in 1920 - 4 543, in 1926 - 7 339, in 1938 - 12 376 people, in 1959 - 20.3, in 1979 - 18.9, in 1989 - 19.7 thousand people). According to the 1989 census, Tatars – 50.1%, Russians – 38.6%, Udmurts – 7.2%.
The city is located in the extreme northeast of Tatarstan, on the border with Udmurtia, at the foot of the Sarapul Hill, on the river Agryzka (Volga basin), 304 km east of Kazan.
Known since 1646. At the beginning of the XX century in Agryz there was a volost government, there was a school, 2 mosques. Until 1920, the center of the Agryz volost of Sarapul district of the Vyatka province. Since 1921 the center of the Agryz canton of the TASSR, since 1924 a state city subordinated to the Elabuga canton executive committee. In 1926 it was excluded from the list of cities, since February 14, 1927 it became the administrative center of Agryz district. In 1928 it was referred to the category of workers' settlements, on August 28, 1938 it was transformed into a city of district subordination. Since January 1, 1963, due to changes in the administrative-territorial division of the TASSR, it was under the administrative subordination of the Yelabuga City Council, since March 4, 1964, the district center again.
Large transport hub of railway lines to Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Izhevsk, Akbash. Railway workshops, building materials factory, butter and dairy plant, cereal receiving enterprise, printing house, food processing plant. 4 secondary, children's music schools, 2 vocational schools, local history museum, central district hospital, railway hospital. Mosque.
