Chwalynsk
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Chwalynsk
Хвалынск
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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
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 |
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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
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
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)
- ↑ Воробьёв Николай Иосифович , bigenc.ru (Russian)
Web links
- City administration website (Russian)
- Chwalynsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)