Chkalovsk, Russia

Chkalovsk (Russian Чкаловск ) is a town with 12,368 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the European part of Russia. It is located on the right bank of the Volga River, about 100 kilometers north-west of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in the same.

Until 1937 the town was named Wassiljowo ( Василёво ), in honor of the famous Soviet pilot Valery Chkalov then received its present name.

History

Your original name Wassiljowa Sloboda ( Василёва Слобода ) had the settlement probably of Prince Vasily Jurjewitsch, the son of Grand Prince Yuri Dolgoruky. He founded here in the 12th century a small reserve fortress for the then frontier fortress Gorodez, it was first mentioned in documents in 1450.

From the 14th to the early 17th century it was owned by the Prince Schuiski, after which it belonged until 1764 a nunnery.

Until the 19th century the people here earn their livelihood through agriculture except in summer mainly as Wolgatreidler, in winter as a potter. Mid-19th century there were 25 potteries here. The settlement was an important gathering place for the Wolgatreidler from the environment. The wealthier portion of the population who own district, called Bazaar inhabited, lived mainly by the grain trade.

End of the 19th century the city experienced with the advent of steamships an upswing. For new ships the Volga had to be deepened by dredging. In Wassiljowo began in 1883 the construction of numerous government workshops for the maintenance of grave ships. 1924 the village got the status of a workers' settlement ( Rabotchi possjolok ).

Here in 1904 who later became a pilot and Hero of the Soviet Union Valery Pavlovich Chkalov was born, after his record-breaking flight over the North Pole, the settlement was renamed in 1937 in Chkalovsk.

1955 Chkalovsk became a town. In the following years, a large part of the city was flooded during the construction of the Gorky hydroelectric power station. Then Chkalovsk was rebuilt on the new shore, a modern city.

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