Chwalynsk

city Chwalynsk Хвалынск coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Saratov Rajon Chwalynsk Founded 1606 City since 1780 surface 46  km² population 13,094 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 285 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 50  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84595 Post Code 412780-412787 License Plate 64, 164 OKATO 63 445 Website www.hvalynsk.ru Geographical location Coordinates 52 ° 29 ′  N , 48 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  N , 48 ° 6 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Saratov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Chwalynsk ( Russian Хвалынск ) is a city in Saratov Oblast ( Russia ) with 13,094 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located about 230 km northeast of the Oblast capital Saratov on the high right bank of the Volga, which is dammed up here to form the Saratower Reservoir .

Chwalynsk is administratively directly subordinate to the Oblast and at the same time the administrative center of the Rajon of the same name .

The nearest railway station is Kulatka , about 25 kilometers west of the city on the Syzran - Saratov route .

history

Old city coat of arms (1781)

1556 was a Russian sentry on the Volga Island Sosnovy . In 1606 the resulting settlement was relocated to the place of today's city and was called Sosnovy Ostrow (Russian for pine island ).

In 1780 the place received its town charter under its current name as the administrative center of a district ( Ujesd ). The name is derived from the name Chwalynsker Meer ( Chwalynskoje more ) for the Caspian Sea, which was common in Russia in the 15th and 16th centuries , as the trade route towards the sea passed the place (also the Astrakhan governorate was initially called Chwalynsker governorate after the sea ) .

The city was one of the centers of the Russian Old Orthodox . Until the end of the 19th century, the city lived mainly from trading in grain and other agricultural products, especially the apples produced in the area.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	15,127
1926	9,600
1939	15,642
1959	17,036
1970	16,249
1979	15,572
1989	14,948
2002	13,752
2010	13.094

Note: census data (1926 rounded)

Culture and sights

The Exaltation of the Cross Church Khvalynsk

A number of buildings from the 19th century have been preserved in Chwalynsk, such as the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross ( Крестовоздвиженская церковь / Krestovosdwischenskaja zerkow) as well as the town and country houses (" dachas ") of the merchants Kaschtschejew, Kertkail., Soldiers.

The city has been home to a Petrov Vodkin Memorial Museum since 1960 and a Sergei Narovchatov Museum since 1990 , as well as a local museum and an art gallery.

Not far from the city lies on the Volga banks of the recreation and resort Tscheremschany .

sons and daughters of the town

• Kusma Petrow-Vodkin (1878–1939), painter
• Wassili Serow (1878-1918), revolutionary
• Nikolai Vorobyov (1894–1967), ethnographer and geographer
• Sergei Narovchatow (1919–1981), poet
• Wassili Semjonowitsch Jemeljanow (1901–1988) head of the steel and nuclear industries

economy

In Chwalynsk there are companies in the food and wood industry as well as a branch of the Saratov mechanical engineering company Elektrofeeder for hydraulic equipment.

See also

• List of cities in Saratov Oblast

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. ↑ Воробьёв Николай Иосифович , bigenc.ru (Russian)

Web links

Commons : Chwalynsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Chwalynsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)