Menselinsk
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List of cities in Russia |
Menselinsk ( Russian Мензелинск ; Tatar Минзәлә Minzələ ) is a city in the Republic of Tatarstan ( Russia ) with 16,476 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located about 290 km east of the republic capital Kazan on the left bank of the Menselja not far from its former confluence with the Ik , which here, however, has formed the Nizhnekamsk reservoir together with the Kama since the late 1980s .
Menselinsk is the administrative center of the raion of the same name .
history
Menselinsk was built in 1652–1656 (according to other sources already 1584–1586) as a fortified settlement on the Menselja river, after which it was named. At the end of the 17th century it was the most important fortress along the Kama Line on the then border of Tsarist Russia . There are indications that there was a settlement here as early as the times of the Volga Bulgarian Empire (before the 12th century).
In 1781 the place received city rights as the administrative center of a district ( Ujesds ) of the Ufa governorate .
year | Residents |
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1897 | 7,552 |
1926 | 7,545 |
1939 | 10,937 |
1959 | 11,810 |
1970 | 15,868 |
1979 | 16,683 |
1989 | 15,223 |
2002 | 16,730 |
2010 | 16,476 |
Note: census data
Culture and sights
A number of buildings from the 19th century and a mosque from 1910 have been preserved in Menselinsk .
Here you will find a history and local museum as well as a memorial museum established in 1970 for the Tatar poet Musa Cälil , who stayed here in 1941.
economy
The city's economy is determined by the food and timber industries. The city is the center of an agricultural area.
Personalities
- Hâmit Zübeyir Koşay (1897–1984), Turkish archaeologist
- Rustam Tariko (* 1961), Russian "oligarch"
Web links
- City and Rajon Administration website (Russian)
- Menselinsk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
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)