Balachna

city Balachna Балахна coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Rajon Balachna mayor Andrei Alexandrovich Motschnew Founded 1474 surface 48  km² population 51,519 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1073 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 75  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83144 Post Code 60640x License Plate 52, 152 OKATO 22 205 501 Website www.balakhna.nn.ru Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 29 '  N , 43 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 29 '0 "  N , 43 ° 32' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Balachna ( Russian Балахна́ ) is a Russian city ​​with 51,519 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) on the right bank of the Volga in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast .

history

Balachna was founded in 1474 under the name Sol-na-Gorodze ( Соль-на-Городце , roughly "Salt near Gorodets " ). After the destruction by the Khan of Kazan in 1536, a wooden fortress was built under the current place name to protect against the Tatar raids. The city was an important location for the salt industry in the 16th century and shipbuilding in the 18th and 19th centuries. From April 1932 to February 1934 there was a corrective labor camp of the Soviet Gulag system in Balachna .

Today there is mainly a paper and furniture industry as well as a peat- powered power station.

The most important person in the city is Kuzma Minin , who emerged as a hero from the war against Poland-Lithuania in the 17th century.

In 1993 the neighboring urban-type Pravdinsk settlement was incorporated, which roughly doubled the population. The settlement was built in 1932 on the site of the former villages of Kursa and Wonjata near a paper mill.

Population development

year	Residents
	Balachna	Pravdinsk	total
1897	5,120		5,120
1939	25.605	13,142	38,747
1959	29,846	20,491	50,337
1970	36,542	26,559	63.101
1979	35,517	29,579	65.096
1989	32,133	32,395	64,528
2002	57,338		57,338
2010	51,519		51,519

Note: census data

Buildings

The Nikolai Church from 1552 still stands in Balachna today. Other historical buildings in the city include the Protection and Intercession Church (1648), the Church of the Redeemer (1668) and the Church of the Nativity (1675) .

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  Church of the Redeemer

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  Church of the Nativity of Christ

sons and daughters of the town

• Viktor Buschujew (1933–2003), weightlifter
• Kusma Minin († 1616), mythical Russian national hero

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ http://www.gulag.memorial.de/lager.php?lag=26

Web links

Commons : Balachna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Unofficial website (Russian)
• Balachna on mojgorod.ru (Russian)