Kanash

Kanash ( Chuvash and Russian Канаш ) is a Russian city in the Autonomous Republic of Chuvashia within the Volga Federal District with 45 607 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). It forms a separate urban district and is also the administrative seat of the homonymous Rajons Kanash.

The city is situated on the northern slopes of the Volga Heights, approximately 800 km east of Moscow and 70 km south of the capital of Republic of Cheboksary. The nearest town is Ziwilsk, 38 km north of Kanash away.

History

Kanash was created in 1891 as a settlement called station Schichrany ( Шихраны ), which was applied to the 1893 went into operation in railway Moscow -Kazan Saransk. The original name of the place came from a neighboring village. In the 1910s Schichrany was via the train station already a busy commercial center with a variety of warehouses. From the late 19th and early 20th centuries, only two buildings are now in Kanash however, been preserved: the water tower and the former teacher training college.

1920 Both the station and the settlement in Kanash have been renamed; the Chuvash word means "advice " or here in the ideological significance " Soviet ". In the 1920s, sat here with the construction of a power plant, the industrialization. 1925 received Kanash, now counting over 2000 inhabitants, the city rights.

With the construction of a rail link to Cheboksary end of the 1930s was Kanash an important railway junction with a train station, which now served more routes and is therefore in the times of the Second World War had military significance. In the postwar period originated in Kanash new industries and the city's railway station was built.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and Transport

Metal Processing and Machinery are the dominant industries today. In addition, manufacturing companies exist a polymer- chemical plant, and food and beverage.

With its location at the central railway line Moscow -Kazan and several other routes Kanash is still regarded as an important transport hub and "railway capital of Chuvashia ". In the city there are also a large railroad car - repair shop. Road connections are made by Kanash among other things to Cheboksary, Kazan and Ulyanovsk.