Alexeyevskoye, Republic of Tatarstan

Alexejewskoje (Russian Алексеевское ) is an urban-type settlement in the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia) with 11,224 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The settlement is situated about 80 km as the crow southeast of the Republic capital Kazan and 35 km west of town on the left bank of the Kama Tschistopol. This is still there in the dam area of ​​the Kuibyshev Reservoir of the Volga River, and is about 10 km wide.

Alexejewskoje is the administrative center of the Rajons Alexejewski. The settlement forms an eponymous municipality ( gorodskoje posselenije ) to continue the two villages ( Derevnya ) Sabakaika ( good 9 km southwest) and Sotejewka (8 km south-west ) include.

History

The village was founded in 1710 Alexejewskoje.

1930 was the administrative seat of a Rajon and 1965 it received the status of an urban-type settlement.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

Alexejewskoje is the center of an agricultural region. In the village there is a factory for ceramic tiles and an art weaving was founded in 1927.

Through the town performs the highway R239 Kazan - Tschistopol - Almetyevsk - Bugulma - Orenburg. West of the village the road crosses the Kama on a completed in the 2000s Eleven kilometers combination of dam and bridges, which replaced the former ferry. Before the dam, the R240 regional road branches off, leading to the R178 east of Dimitrovgrad in the neighboring Ulyanovsk Oblast - along the shortest route between the cities of millions Kazan and Samara.