Buinsk (Tatarstan)
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List of cities in Russia |
Buinsk ( Russian Буинск ; Tatar Буа Bua ) is a city in the Republic of Tatarstan ( Russia ) with 20,352 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 140 km southwest of the republic capital Kazan on the Karla , a left tributary of the Swijaga, which flows into the Volga . The city should not be confused with the urban-type settlement of the same name, Buinsk, in the neighboring republic of Chuvashia .
Buinsk is administratively directly subordinate to the republic and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .
The city lies on the railway line (Kasan-) sviyazhsk - Ulyanovsk - Syzran - Saratov - Volgograd (Station Bua ), who during World War II, built in 1942 so-called Volga castling .
history
The place was first mentioned in a document around 1700 (information between 1691 and 1703) and received city rights in 1780. The place name is derived from the Tatar word for defense .
year | Residents |
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1897 | 4.213 |
1926 | 4,730 |
1939 | 5,902 |
1959 | 9,021 |
1970 | 14,852 |
1979 | 15,610 |
1989 | 16,800 |
2002 | 19,736 |
2010 | 20,352 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
In Buinsk there is the restored Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь Troitskaja Zerkow ) and a mosque. There has been a local history museum since 1994.
economy
Buinsk is the center of the food and luxury food industry (dairy, sugar factory, yeast, meat; tobacco). There are also equipment manufacturing and textile industries here.
sons and daughters of the town
- Alexander Kasankin (1900–1955), Lieutenant General
- Wladimir Trussenjow (1931–2001), discus thrower
Web links
- City and Rajon Administration website (Russian)
- Buinsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Казанкин Александр Федорович , structure.mil.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Казанкин Александр Фёдорович , desantura.ru (Russian)