Tschistopol ( Russian Чистополь ; Tatar Чистай / Çistay ) is a city in Russia in the Republic of Tatarstan . It has 60,755 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and is located around 140 km southeast of the republic capital Kazan , on the left bank of the Kama .
The place arose at the beginning of the 18th century as Tschistoje Pole , literally translated as "clean field" or translated as "wide field". At first it was a village that already had about 1000 inhabitants at a census in 1763. Agriculture was practiced, especially grain cultivation.
During the Russian territorial reform at the end of the 18th century, Tschistoje Pole was given city status as the administrative seat of a Ujezd . The abbreviated name Tschistopol only gradually became common. In the 19th century, the city developed into an important grain trading center in the Volga region, and industry later developed here. The Chistopol Rajon is still an important grain-growing area.
Population development
year
Residents
1897
20,104
1926
17,511
1939
31,973
1959
51,864
1970
60.005
1979
64,285
1989
65,468
2002
63,029
2010
60,755
Note: census data
economy
Today there are over a dozen factories in operation in the city, including a clock factory in which the Vostok clocks are made, several food factories, a shipyard and a joint venture with Siemens AG for the manufacture of auto parts.
sons and daughters of the town
Pyotr Kafarow (1817–1878), archimandrite and sinologist
↑ 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)