Kamyshin

city Kamyshin Kamyshin flag coat of arms Federal district Southern Russia Oblast Volgograd Urban district Kamyshin mayor Alexander Chunakov Founded 1668 City since 1780 surface 81  km² population 119,565 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1476 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 50  m Time zone UTC + 4 Telephone code (+7) 84457 Post Code 403870-403895 License Plate 34, 134 OKATO 18 415 Website www.admkamyshin.info Geographical location Coordinates 50 ° 5 ′  N , 45 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  N , 45 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Volgograd Oblast

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
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

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)

Web links

Commons : Kamyshin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kamyshin on mojgorod.ru (Russian)