Kotelnitsch

city Kotelnitsch Котельнич flag coat of arms Federal district Volga Oblast Kirov Urban district Kotelnitsch mayor Larissa Danilovich First mention 1143 City since 1780 surface 32  km² population 24,979 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 781 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 120  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 83342 Post Code 612600-612607 License Plate 43 OKATO 33 410 Website www.kotelnich.info Geographical location Coordinates 58 ° 18 '  N , 48 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 58 ° 18 '0 "  N , 48 ° 20' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kirov Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Kotelnitsch ( Russian Котельнич ) is a city with 24,979 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in Russia in the Kirov Oblast . It is located on the Vyatka River , about 850 km northeast of Moscow and 124 km southwest of the regional capital, Kirov .

history

St. Nikolai Orthodox Church

railway station

Railway underpass in Kotelnitsch

The place was first mentioned in 1143. According to this, in place of today's Kotelnitsch there was a village called Käkšär ( Mari Кӓкшesр, Russian Kokscharow) inhabited by Mari . In 1181 it is said to have been taken by settlers from the Novgorod Republic . They founded a new place there and called it Kotelnitsch , which could be derived from the old Russian term kotjol for "valley" or "gorge".

The history of the place from the 12th to the 15th century has hardly been passed down. It was not until 1459 that Kotelnitsch was mentioned again in a Russian document, when troops of Grand Duke Vasily II brought it together with other villages in the Vyatka region under the rule of Moscow .

After joining Moscow, Kotelnitsch developed mainly as a trading town due to its favorable geographical location on the Vyatka, and from the 17th century also with an annual agricultural fair. In 1780 it was officially declared a city and was subsequently a district capital within the Vyatka governorate . The first factories were built here in the late 19th century, and at the beginning of the 20th century the city received a railway connection with the relocation of the Trans-Siberian Mainline . However, Kotelnitsch lost its importance as a trading center from the 20th century.

On May 26, 1926, the city was almost completely devastated by a major fire; about every second city dweller became homeless. After that, Kotelnitsch had to be rebuilt, not least with the help of private donations from all over Russia.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	4,240
1926	7,553
1939	18,457
1959	27,688
1970	29,196
1979	32,759
1989	36,841
2002	28,245
2010	24,979

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

In today's Kotelnitsch there are several industrial companies, including the fittings factory Vimpel-M , wood processing, textile and food industries. As a station both on the Trans-Siberian Railway and on a main line from Nizhny Novgorod , Kotelnitsch is also an important rail transport hub.

sons and daughters of the town

• Anatoli Skurichin (1900–1990), photographer
• Wera Krepkina (* 1933), track and field athlete and Olympic champion

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. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

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

• Kotelnitsch on mojgorod.ru (Russian)