Kosmodemyansk

city Kosmodemjansk Козьмодемьянск ( Russian ) Цикмӓ / Чыкма ( Mari ) flag coat of arms Federal district Volga republic Mari El Urban district Kosmodemyansk head Vladimir Toropov Founded 1583 City since 1781 surface 13  km² population 21,257 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1635 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83632 Post Code 42535x License Plate 12 OKATO 88 415 Geographical location Coordinates 56 ° 20 '  N , 46 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 20 '0 "  N , 46 ° 34' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Mari El

List of cities in Russia

Kosmodemjansk ( Russian Козьмодемьянск , Mari Цикмӓ / Zikma or Чыкма / Tschykma ) is a city in the autonomous republic of Mari El , east of the central area of Russia , and has 21,257 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). Its location is 550 km east of Moscow , about halfway to the Urals .

geography

Location and neighboring cities

The city is located 90 km southwest of the republic capital Yoshkar-Ola on the steep right bank of the Volga ( Cheboksarsk Reservoir ), where the Volga heights run out to the north. The opposite (northern) side of the stream is relatively flat.

The nearest large city, Cheboksary , about 50 km downstream, already belongs to the neighboring republic of Chuvashia . The nearest megacities, Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan, are each about 200 kilometers by road to the west and east.

Kosmodemjansk is administratively directly subordinate to the Republic of Mari El and at the same time the administrative center of the Gornomarijski Raion ( Mountain Mari Raion ).

history

Kosmodemjansk was created in 1583 as Ostrog Kosmodemjanski in place of the older Chuvash settlement Tschikmechola and was first mentioned in 1609 as a "city". In 1781 the place became the administrative center of a district ( Ujesds ) of the Kazan Governorate and received today's town charter.

Population development

Historic windmill in the Mari Ethnographic Museum in Kosmodemyansk

year	Residents
1897	5,200
1926	7,700
1939	10,680
1959	12,625
1970	15.302
1979	18,792
1989	24,746
2002	22,771
2010	21,257

Note: census data (rounded up to 1926)

sons and daughters of the town

• Andrei Eschpai (1925–2015), composer

Web links

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

• Kosmodemjansk 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)