Wassiljewo (Tatarstan, Zelenodolsk)

Urban-type settlement Wassiljewo Васильево ( Russian ) Васильево ( Tatar ) flag Federal district Volga republic Tatarstan Rajon Zelenodolsk Founded 17th century Urban-type settlement since 1928 population 16,953 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 60  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 84371 Post Code 422530-422532 License Plate 16, 116 OKATO 92 228 555 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 50 '  N , 48 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 50 '0 "  N , 48 ° 40' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Tatarstan

List of large settlements in Russia

The Raifa Mother of God Nativity Monastery not far from Wassiljewo

Wassiljewo ( Russian and Tatar Васи́льево ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Tatarstan ( Russia ) with 16,953 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is a good 25 kilometers as the crow flies west of the center of the republic capital Kazan on the left bank of the Volga , at the upper end of the reservoir area of the Kuibyshev reservoir . The place is located on an island that is formed by the narrow tributary Karassicha , which today, however, is largely silted up or swampy .

Wassiljewo belongs to the Zelenodolsk Raion and is located about 10 kilometers east of its administrative center Zelenodolsk .

history

Vasilyevo village was founded in the 17th century and received urban-type settlement status in 1928.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	10.176
1959	14,545
1970	18,332
1979	19,638
1989	18,776
2002	16,846
2010	16,953

Note: census data

Culture and sights

Near the right bank of the Volga opposite Vasilyevo and accessible from there by ship in summer is the former city ​​of Svyashsk , founded in 1551 under Ivan IV during the last war against the Kazan Khanate as a base for the decisive attack . In today's village (since 1932) a large number of buildings from the 16th to the early 20th century have been preserved. The place, one of the most important tourist destinations in Tatarstan, has been a candidate for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1998 .

A few kilometers north of Vasilyevo extends the 5921  hectare northern sector of the biosphere reserve established in 1960 and Sapovedniks Volga-Kama . The Russian Orthodox Raifa Mother of God Nativity Monastery ( Раифский Богородицкий монастырь / Raifski-monastyror ) , which was founded in the 17th century, closed in the 1930s and reopened in 1991, is located on its territory on Lake Raifa. , the most important monastery of the Kazan and Tatarstan eparchy .

In the pine forests on the Volga near Wassiljewo there are several sanatoriums , for example Vasilyevsky and Sosnovy Bor , as well as a hotel and training complex of the UNICS Kazan basketball club .

A memorial museum for the painter Konstantin Wassiljew has existed since 1996 .

Economy and Infrastructure

There is a glassworks and forestry businesses in Vasilyevo.

The settlement is situated on the railway line Moscow  - Kazan - Yekaterinburg (station at kilometer 768 and multiple breakpoints ). There are suburban trains to Kazan. To the north, the old route of the M7 trunk road from Moscow via Kazan to Ufa leads past the place, in the course of which the Volga is crossed by a car ferry at Zelenodolsk . The new route crosses the river on a bridge a good ten kilometers below (east) of Wassiljewo.

Personalities

• Konstantin Wassiljew (1942–1976), painter; lived intermittently in Wassiljewo since childhood and had an accident nearby

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. ↑ sviyazhsk on the World Heritage Web page of UNESCO (English, French)
3. ↑ Volga-Kama nature reserve in the information and information system Specially protected natural areas of Russia of the Center for Nature Conservation (Russian)
4. ↑ Website of the monastery (Russian)
5. ↑ Information on the sanatorium ( Memento from September 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
6. ↑ Information on the association website of UNICS Kazan (Russian)
7. ↑ Information about the museum at museum.ru (Russian)
8. ↑ Information about the museum ( Memento from October 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive )