Kotelnich

Kotelnich (Russian Котельнич ) is a town with 24 979 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in Russia in the Kirov Oblast. It lies on the river Vyatka, about 850 km north-east of Moscow and 124 km south-west of the regional capital Kirov.

History

First mention of the town took place in 1143. Accordingly, at that time consisted in place of today's Kotelnich an inhabited by Mari village called Käkšär ( Mari Кӓкшӓр, Russian Kokscharow ). 1181 it should have been then occupied by settlers from the Republic of Novgorod. This established at the local office a new place and called him Kotelnich what could kotjol for " valley " or " gorge " are descended from the Old Russian term.

The history of the place from the 12th to the 15th century has hardly been handed down. Only in 1459 Kotelnich was again mentioned in a Russian certificate, as troops of the Grand Prince Vasily II brought it along with other towns in the Vyatka region under the rule of Muscovy.

After connecting to Muscovy to Kotelnich developed due to its favorable geographical location on the Vyatka primarily as a commercial city, from the 17th century with an annually organized agricultural fair. In 1780 it was officially declared a town and was subsequently a district capital within the province of Vyatka. In the late 19th century there arose the first factories, the beginning of the 20th century, the town was granted with the laying of the Trans- Siberian Railway, a railway connection. Its importance as a trading center lost Kotelnich but from the 20th century.

On May 26, 1926, the city was almost completely destroyed by fire; around half of urban residents was doing homeless. Then had Kotelnich, not least, rebuilt with the help of private donations from all over Russia.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and Transport

In today's Kotelnich there are several industries, including the fitting factory Vimpel -M, enterprises of wood processing, textile and food industries. As a station on both the Trans-Siberian railway and on a main route of Nizhny Novgorod from Kotelnich is also an important railway junction.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Wera Krepkina ( born 1933), former track and field athlete