Kinel

Kinel (Russian Кинель ) is a city in Samara Oblast (Russia) with 34 491 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city lies about 40 km east of Oblasthauptstadt Samara at the mouth of the Great Kinel ( Bolshoi Kinel ) in the Samara, a left tributary of the Volga.

Kinel the Oblast is administratively subordinated directly and as the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons. From the city's urban-type settlements Alexeyevka ( 9,923 inhabitants) and Ust- Kinelski be managed ( 10,033 inhabitants), so that the total population of the administrative unit Kinel city is 50 886 (calculated 2009).

The city lies on the southern branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway Moscow - Samara Chelyabinsk - Omsk ( 1139 line kilometers from Moscow), the route branches off towards Orenburg -Tashkent from here. In Kinel is also the eastern terminus of the bypass opened in 1970, freight route to Samara.

History

In the vicinity of the present city first village was founded in 1837. 1877, the railway line Samara - Orenburg was passed along here; a station settlement was named after the close opening into the Samara River. 1892 Kinel was initially chosen as the starting point of a route to Zlatoust ( Samara Slatouster railway), which was later extended to Chelyabinsk and formed the basis for the original route of the Trans -Siberian Railway.

Station settlement and surrounding villages gradually coalesced with each other; on January 30, 1930 Kinel received the status of an urban-type settlement and on 16 March 1944, the city law.

Demographics

Note: Census data (1897 rounded)

Culture, Education and sights

The members of the city settlement Ust- Kinelski is founded in 1903, the State Samara Agricultural University (Higher Education and Research Institute ).

Economy

Kinel is a major railway junction (depot, workshops, etc.). There are also companies in the textile, furniture, building materials and food industry. Kinel is the center of an agricultural region.