Mendeleevsk
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List of cities in Russia |
Mendeleevsk ( Russian and Tatar Менделеевск ) is a city in the Republic of Tatarstan ( Russia ) with 22,075 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 240 km east of the republic capital Kazan between the Kama, which is dammed up here to form the Nizhnekamsk reservoir, and its right tributary Toima .
Mendeleevsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
The city lies on the railway line Akbasch (near Bugulma ) - Naberezhnye Chelny - Agrys (station Tichonowo ).
history
In the vicinity of the older Dordes Bondjuga , a settlement was established in 1868 in connection with the establishment of the Bondjuschski Sawod chemical plant by the merchant P. Uschkow, from which today's city emerged.
In 1928 it received the status of an urban-type settlement under the name Bondyushski . In 1967 the villages of Bondjuga, Tichije Gory and Lenino (formerly Kamaschewo) were incorporated and granted city rights under their current name (after Dmitri Mendeleev , who briefly worked in the chemical plant).
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 8,513 |
1959 | 11,213 |
1970 | 13,557 |
1979 | 13,986 |
1989 | 18,085 |
2002 | 22,027 |
2010 | 22,075 |
Note: census data (1939–1959 only Bondjuschski settlement without later incorporated settlements and villages)
Culture and sights
In Mendeleevsk the manor house and the office building of the former owners of the chemical plant as well as the Church of the Epiphany ( Богоявленская церковь / Bogojawlenskaja zerkow) from the 19th century have been preserved. In 1995 a new mosque was built in the city .
Mendeleevsk has had a local museum since 1994. Part of the exhibition is dedicated to the poet and writer Boris Pasternak , who spent the summer of 1917 in what is now the Tichije Gory district on the banks of the Kama.
Attractions in the area include the church and school building in Ilnet Village and the mosque in Tatarsky Kokshan Village . There is a Hunnic burial mound near the village of Turajewo .
economy
Main businesses are the L.-Ja.-Karpov chemical plant and the Nowomendelejewski -Chemiewerk, also the supplier for the next KAMAZ -Werk Naberezhnye Chelny Awtokam-Toima .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- Rajon and City Administration website (Russian)
- Unofficial city portal (Russian)
- Website of the local history museum (in Russian, with information on the city's history)
- Mendeleevsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)