Kamyshin
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Kamyshin
Kamyshin
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List of cities in Russia |
Kamyshin ( Russian Камы́шин ) is a city on the right bank of the Volga in southern Russia . It is located on the Volgograd reservoir halfway between Saratov and Volgograd . In Kamyshin, the river Kamyschinka (Russian Камышинка ) flows into the reservoir. The city has 119,565 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010), making it the third largest town in the Volgograd Oblast .
history
Kamyshin was in 1668, when Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich a unit Strelets into the mouth of Kamyschinka sent founded and until the 18th century at times used as a fortress to protect the trade route along the Volga.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 16,264 |
1926 | 18,477 |
1939 | 23,981 |
1959 | 56,511 |
1970 | 97.242 |
1979 | 111,565 |
1989 | 122,463 |
2002 | 127.891 |
2010 | 119,565 |
Note: census data
traffic
Kamyshin is on the R228 highway , which leads from Syzran via Saratov to Volgograd .
Sports
The city is represented by the football club FK Tekstilschtschik Kamyshin , which after the collapse of the Soviet Union became one of the founding members of the newly created Russian Supreme League .
military
The 56th Air Assault Brigade of the Russian Airborne Forces is stationed in Kamyshin.
sons and daughters of the town
- Viktor Tschernow (1873–1952), politician
- Aloysius Kappes (1885–1937), pastor
- Dominik Hollmann (1899–1990), writer and poet
- Vladimir Fere (1902–1971), composer
- Alexei Maressjew (1916-2001), pilot
- Alexander Tschirkow (* 1941), literary scholar
- Denis Kolodin (* 1982), football player
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)
Web links
- Kamyshin on mojgorod.ru (Russian)