Kasimov
Kasimov (Russian Касимов ) is a town in Ryazan Oblast (Russia) with 33 491 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The city is located in the eastern part of the Meschtschoraniederung about 150 km northeast of the Oblasthauptstadt Ryazan and 260 kilometers southeast of Moscow on the left bank of the Oka, a right tributary of the Volga.
Kasimov the Oblast is administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.
History
The city was founded in 1152 by Yuri Dolgoruky as Gorodez - Meschtschorski as a border fortress of the Principality of Vladimir - Suzdal.
1376 City in a row but near as Nowy Nisowy Gorod ( New lowland city) was destroyed by troops of the Golden Horde, rebuilt.
In 1471 the city was renamed in Kasimov after they had gone over the 1446 of the Golden Horde in Moscow services Tatar princes Qasıym ( Russian spelling Касим / Kassim ) passed as a fief in 1452 the Moscow Grand Prince Vasily II. Until 1681 Kasimov remained under several Tatar dynasties center of the autonomous khanate Kasimov ( Tatar Касыйм ханлыгы / Qasıym xanlığı ). Under Peter the Great, the city lost its independence and was a member of the Pereslawl- Ryazan province. 1778 modern municipal law as an administrative center of a circle ( Ujesds ) of the government of Ryazan was awarded. In the first half of the 19th century, one based on the local fishing industry began to develop in the city. The 1897 census showed that about one-sixth of the population was of Tatar language. 1929 Kasimov was an administrative center of the district Kassimower held by the Moscow region, and in 1937 went to the district in the Ryazan region a.
Demographics
Note: Census data (1926 rounded)
Culture and sights
Due to its history Kasimov is located in Central Russia furthest city with historical Islamic buildings. In the town is a mosque in the 18th century, built on the foundations of the 15th century, with a minaret from the 15th to the 16th century, rebuilt in 1740, received. Here are the mausoleums of Şahğäli Xan ( Shahghali Khan, Shah Ali Khan) in 1555 with a minaret and Äfğan Möxämmäd ( Afgan Sultan Muhammed ) of 1658.
Even Russian Orthodox churches have been preserved: the Assumption Cathedral ( Вознесенский собор / Voznesensky Sobor ) from the 19th century and the Church of the Epiphany ( Богоявленская церковь / Bogoyavlensky Tserkov ), St. Nicholas Church ( Никольская церковь / Nikolskaja Tserkov ) and the Holy Trinity Church ( Троицкая церковь / Troitskaya Tserkov ) from the 18th century.
Kasimov has a local history museum.
Economy and infrastructure
In Kasimov there is a factory for fishing nets, developed on the basis of a rope factory in 1853, which produces up to one third the time needed for sea fishing Russia's networks, operations for non-ferrous metal processing, instrument engineering, for refrigeration and a ship repair yard.
The town is the terminus of a 69 km long railway line which branches off from the Moscow- Ryazan - Rusajewka - Sysran at the station Uschinski. The train station is eight kilometers southwest of the city on the opposite, right bank of the Oka, which is west of the city crossed by a road bridge. An earlier bridge near the Stzadtzentrums was demolished in the 1990s.
Kasimov is the end point of regional roads R105 of Ljuberzy in Moscow on Spas- Klepiki, R124 and R125 of Shatsk of Nizhny Novgorod on Murom.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Frol Kozlov (1908 - 1965), Soviet politician
- Alexander Makarov (* 1951), Athlete