Naberezhnye Chelny

city Naberezhnye Chelny Набережные Челны ( Russian ) Чаллы ( Tatar ) flag coat of arms Federal district Volga republic Tatarstan Urban district Naberezhnye Chelny Inner structure 3 city rajons mayor Wassil Sheikhrasiev First mention 1172 Earlier names Brezhnev (1982–1988) City since 1930 surface 146  km² population 513,193 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 3515 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 100  m Ethnic composition Tatars 47.4% Russians 44.9% Chuvashes 1.9% Ukrainians 1.3% Bashkirs 1.2% and others Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 8552 Post Code 423800-423841 License Plate 16, 116 OKATO 92 430 Website nabeltey.ru Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 42 ′  N , 52 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 52 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E

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View of Naberezhnye Chelny from Hotel Tatarstan

View of Naberezhnye Chelny

Nabereschnyje Tschelny ( Russian Набережные Челны ^{? / I} ; Tatar Чаллы Çallı ) is a city with 513,193 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Russian republic of Tatarstan . After the republic capital Kazan , it is the second largest city in Tatarstan.

Geographical location

Naberezhnye Chelny is located in the east of Tatarstan on the Kama , which feeds the Nizhnekamsk reservoir above the city , the largest of the river. The distance to Kazan is 225 km, the nearest town is Yelabuga , which is 20 km from Naberezhnye Chelny.

history

The place is first mentioned in a Tatar document from 1680, which mentions a Volga-Bulgarian city ​​of Yar Çallı, founded in 1172 . Subsequent archaeological finds have shown that a village must have actually existed on the site of today's city until the 14th century, i.e. during the times of the Volga Bulgarian state.

The place was first mentioned in Russian documents in 1626, under its current name, which is a Russian form of the name Yar Çallı (the addition Naberezhnye was probably derived from Bereschnye , literally “located on the (Kama) bank”). Until the 19th century, Naberezhnye Chelny was a village in which fishing and trade were mainly carried out. In 1847 it had 1726 inhabitants.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the first industrial companies came into being. In 1930 Naberezhnye Chelny, now numbering 9,300 inhabitants, received city rights. Nevertheless, it was a rather insignificant small town until the 1970s. However, after the production of trucks , diesel engines and tanks began in 1976 in the KAMAZ industrial combine , the city's population rose by leaps and bounds, reaching 500,000 in 1989.

In 1982 Naberezhnye Chelny was renamed Brezhnev (Брежнев) after the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Leonid Brezhnev , but was given its original name back in 1988.

Population development

year	Residents
1926	3,873
1939	9,295
1959	19,103
1970	37,923
1979	301,381
1989	500,309
2002	509.870
2010	513.193

Note: census data

economy

The most important branch of industry in Naberezhnye Chelny is mechanical engineering, which is represented by several other factories in addition to the KAMAZ plant, the city's main employer. Some of KAMAZ's halls were used to set up the “KAMAZ Master” industrial park, in which medium-sized companies and suppliers for KAMAZ have settled.

The hydroelectric power plant of the Nizhnekamsk reservoir is located in Naberezhnye Chelny and supplies the city with energy. There are also two thermal power stations and companies in the metallurgy, construction and food industries.

In August 2014, representatives of the Austrian crane manufacturer Palfinger and the largest Russian truck manufacturer Kamaz announced that the two companies were setting up two joint ventures, one of which is to be based in Naberezhnye Chelny. A company for the assembly of lifting equipment on truck chassis is to be set up there. The share of the Austrian automaker is said to be 49 percent and that of Kamaz 51 percent.

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  KAMAZ plants

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  KAMAZ Master

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  Hydroelectric power plant

traffic

Naberezhnye Chelny is located near the M7 highway , which runs past neighboring Yelabuga . There is also an inland port, an international airport, a train station and a tram network for public transport within the city.

Further educational institutions

• Academy of the Kama Area
• Branch of Kazan State University
• Branch of the Volgograd State Academy of Sports
• Non-governmental religious-philosophical institute
• Polytechnic Institute of the Kama Area
• Naberezhnye Chelny State Pedagogical University
• State Institute of Sports of the Kama Region

Sports

In football, the city is represented by the Kamas Naberezhnye Tschelny club in the third-class Perwenstvo PFL .

Town twinning

• Liaocheng , People's Republic of China, since 2009

sons and daughters of the town

• Firdaus Kabirow (* 1961), marathon rally driver
• Lilija Nurutdinova (* 1963), middle-distance runner
• Marat Ganejew (* 1964), racing cyclist
• Sarija Sakirowa (* 1964), rower and two-time world champion in the eighth
• Lyubov Morgunova (* 1971), marathon runner
• Rawil Gusmanov (born 1972), ice hockey player
• Gulnara Galkina (* 1978), obstacle, medium and long distance runner
• Andrei Yegorchev (* 1978), volleyball player
• Alexander Bespalow (* 1981), racing cyclist
• Alexander Bukharov (* 1985), football player
• Maxim Pestuschko (* 1985), ice hockey player
• Ilnur Sakarin (* 1989), racing cyclist
• Tatiana Gorbunowa (* 1990), gymnast and Olympic champion
• Daler Kusjajew (* 1993), football player

literature

• Marko Ferst : Naberezhnye Chelny. In the middle of Tatarstan. Portrait of a Russian City , Zeitsprung Edition, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7347-3217-1 (illustrated book in German and Russian)

Web links

Commons : Naberezhnye Chelny  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Naberezhnye Chelny  - explanations of meanings, origins of words, synonyms, translations

• Naberezhnye Chelny 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. ↑ About the city ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2012 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. on the official website of the administration (as of 2010; Russian) 
3. ↑ Palfinger plans two joint ventures with Kamaz (August 20, 2014)
4. ↑ Andrey Yegorchev in the database of Sports-Reference (English)