Kanasch

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city Kanasch Канаш flag coat of arms Federal district Volga republic Chuvashia Urban district Kanasch mayor Rodion Myasnikov Founded 1891 Earlier names Schichrany City since 1925 surface 18.5  km² population 45,607 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 2465 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 190  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83533 Post Code 42933x License Plate 21, 121 OKATO 97 407 Website gov.cap.ru/main.asp?govid=61 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 31 '  N , 47 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 31 '0 "  N , 47 ° 30' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Chuvashia

List of cities in Russia

Kanasch ( Chuvash and Russian Кана́ш ) is a Russian city ​​in the Autonomous Republic of Chuvash within the Volga Federal District with 45,607 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). It forms an independent urban district and is also the administrative seat of the Kanasch Rajon of the same name .

The city is located on the northern slope of the Volga Heights , around 800 km east of Moscow and 70 km south of the republic capital Cheboksary . The nearest town is Ziwilsk , 38 km north of Kanasch.

history

City Court of Kanasch

Kanasch emerged from 1891 as a station settlement called Schichrany (Шихраны), which was built on the railway line Moscow - Saransk - Kazan , which went into operation in 1893 . The original name of the place came from a neighboring village. In the 1910s, thanks to the train station, Schichrany was already a lively trading center with a large number of warehouses. However, only two buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries have survived in Kanasch: the water tower and the former teacher training college.

In 1920, both the station and the settlement were renamed Kanasch ; the Chuvash word means "council" or here in the ideological meaning " soviet ". Industrialization began here in the 1920s with the construction of a power station. In 1925 Kanasch, now numbering well over 2,000 inhabitants, received city rights.

With the establishment of a rail link to Cheboksary at the end of the 1930s, Kanasch became an important railway junction with a train station, which now served several routes and was therefore of military importance during the Second World War . In the post-war period, new industrial plants were built in Kanasch and the city's train station was rebuilt.

In 1958 there was an aircraft accident near Kanasch .

Population development

year	Residents
1939	18,756
1959	33,638
1970	40,682
1979	46,923
1989	54,585
2002	50,593
2010	45,607

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Kanasch station

Metal processing and mechanical engineering are the dominant branches of industry today . There is also a polymer chemical plant as well as food and beverages producing companies.

With its location on the central railway line between Moscow and Kazan and several other routes, Kanasch is still an important traffic junction and the "railway capital of Chuvashia". There is also a large railway car repair shop in the city. Road connections exist from Kanasch to, among others, Cheboksary, Kazan and Ulyanovsk .

sons and daughters of the town

• Vyacheslav Mukhanov (* 1956), Russian astrophysicist, cosmologist and university professor

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 : Kanasch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city administration (Russian)
• Unofficial website kanash.ru (Russian)
• Kanasch on mojgorod.ru (Russian)