Kineshma

city Kineschma Кинешма flag coat of arms Federal district Central Russia Oblast Ivanovo Urban district Kineshma head Andrei Tomilin First mention 1429 City since 1777 surface 50  km² population 88,164 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1763 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 110  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 49331 Post Code 155800-155819 License Plate 37, 137 OKATO 24 405 Website http://www.admkineshma.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 57 ° 27 '  N , 42 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 57 ° 27 '0 "  N , 42 ° 9' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Ivanovo Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kineschma ( Russian Кинешма ) is a Russian town with 88,164 inhabitants (14 October 2010) in the Oblast Ivanovo .

It is located around 350 km northeast of Moscow and extends on the right bank of the Volga over a length of 15 km. The regional capital Ivanovo is located about 100 km southwest of Kineshma. The nearest city is Zavolzhsk , three kilometers north of Kineshma on the opposite bank of the Volga.

history

Volga in Kineshma

Old town

City Festival 2005

The first settlements near today's city existed no later than the 2nd century BC. At that time the area was populated by Merja , a Finno-Ugric people whose language the place name (literally translated "deep water") comes from. Kineschma was first mentioned in Russian documents in 1429, when the place was attacked and devastated by Tatars . In 1504 Kineshma belonged to the Grand Duchy of Moscow and was a village that was mainly characterized by fishing.

As in other cities in the region around Ivanovo, cotton processing began to find its way here at the beginning of the 18th century, and in 1758 the first textile factory was established there. At Kineshma there was also the location on the Volga, which led to the construction of a port. The place developed through the textile industry and trade and received the status of a district town in 1777. In 1871 Kineshma received a railway connection that connected the city directly with Moscow. By the end of the 19th century, Kineshma was already an important center of the textile industry with around 5000 inhabitants. In addition to textile factories, there was an iron foundry and smaller chemical factories in the village.

In 1936 Kineshma was incorporated into Ivanovo Oblast.

On September 19, 1971, an underground atomic bomb ( Globus-1 ) with an explosive force of 2.3 kilotons was detonated on the north bank further to the east near Galkino (about 40 km from Kineshma) . The blast was used for geological experiments, but ended in a catastrophe, as a contaminated cloud unexpectedly came to the surface. In addition, water from the Volga washed up the site of the blast.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	7,575
1939	75,165
1959	87.214
1970	95,603
1979	101,326
1989	105.037
2002	95.233
2010	88.164

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

Trinity Dormition Cathedral

New Volga Bridge

Today the textile industry, wood processing and the chemical industry are still the most important branches of the economy, and the river port is also important. However, the Ivanovo Oblast is now one of the poorest regions in central Russia, since most of the light industry operations came to a standstill with the fall of the Soviet Union.

In 2003 a new car bridge over the Volga was completed near Kineshma, through which the road connection to neighboring Zavolschsk has improved. Another Volga bridge is used for rail traffic, which connects Kineshma with Ivanovo and, via branch lines of the Transsib , with other Russian cities. A train ride from Kineshma to Moscow ( Yaroslavl station ) takes about nine hours.

In the summer Kineshma is connected to Kostroma twice a week with a half-hour helicopter flight.

While the residents of Kineschma used to drive almost exclusively cars from Russian or German production, the Japanese imports (right-hand drive) are now booming and now account for almost as high a proportion as German vehicles. In public transport within the city, minibuses run almost exclusively by private companies. Large coaches are used to travel to other cities.

Further educational institutions

• Faculty of the Moscow Mechanical Engineering Institute
• Branch of the Moscow State Industrial University

sons and daughters of the town

• Alexei Krutikow (1895–1949), Lieutenant General
• Sergei Kljugin (* 1974), athlete
• Ekaterina Smirnowa (* 1990), cross-country summer biathlete

Web links

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

• City administration website (Russian)
• Unofficial website (Russian)
• City portal Kineshma (Russian)
• Kineshma on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

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. ↑ Крутиков Алексей Николаевич , pamyat-naroda.ru (Russian)