Kineshma
Kineschma (Russian Кинешма ) is a Russian city with 88 164 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the Ivanovo Oblast.
It is located approximately 400 kilometers northeast of Moscow and extends along the right bank of the Volga River at a length of over 15 km. The regional center of Ivanovo is located about 100 km south-west of Kineschma. The nearest town is Sawolschsk three kilometers north of Kineschma on the opposite bank of the Volga.
History
First settlements near the present city existed at least since the 2nd century BC At that time the area was inhabited by Merja, a Finno -Ugric people, whose language of the place name (literally "deep waters" ) was born. The first written mentions Kineschmas in Russian documents there were in 1429, when the place was raided and devastated by Tatars. 1504 was already Kineschma for Grand Duchy of Moscow and was a mainly embossed on fishing village.
As in other cities in the region around Ivanovo early 18th century began to keep the cotton processing feed here, and in 1758 was in place, the first textile factory. In Kineschma still was added at the location on the Volga, which led to the construction of a harbor. The town developed by the textile industry and trade, and in 1777 received the status of a district town. 1871 Kineschma received a railroad connection, which connected the city directly with Moscow. Towards the end of the 19th century Kineschma was already an important center of textile industry with around 5000 inhabitants. In addition to textile mills were in place an iron foundry and small chemical plants.
1936 Kineschma was incorporated in the Ivanovo Oblast.
On September 19, 1971, ignited with 2.3 kilotons explosive power on the east side lying north shore at Galkino (about 40 km from Kineschma ) an underground nuclear bomb (Globus -1). The blast was geological tests, but ended in disaster as unexpected a contaminated cloud came to the surface. In addition, the Volga water flushed to the site of the blast.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Economy and Transport
Today, still include the textile industry, wood processing and chemical industries to the most important sectors of the economy, along with the river port comes to importance. However, the Ivanovo Oblast is today considered the poorest regions of Central Russia, since most enterprises of light industry came with the demise of the Soviet Union to a standstill.
2003, a new road bridge across the Volga was completed near Kineschma through which the road link has improved among other things, to neighboring Sawolschsk. Another Volga Bridge is the railway, the Kineschma with Ivanovo and connects via the Trans-Siberian branch lines with other Russian cities. A ride on the train from Kineschma to Moscow ( Yaroslavsky station) takes about nine hours.
In the summer Kineschma is tied twice a week with a good half-hour helicopter flight to Kostroma.
Drove the inhabitants Kineschmas formerly almost exclusively from Russian or German car production, so have the imports from Japan ( RHD) now boom and are now almost as high a proportion as the German vehicles. In public transport, ride within the city almost exclusively minibuses of private enterprises. Great coaches are used for the trip to other cities.
Further education institutions
- Faculty of the Moscow Engineering Institute
- Branch of Moscow State Industrial University
Sons and daughters of the town
- Sergei Kljugin (* 1974), Athlete
- Ekaterina Smirnova (* 1990), Cross Country Sommerbiathletin