Mendeleyevsk

Mendelejewsk (Russian and Tatar Менделеевск ) is a city in the Republic of Tatarstan (Russia) with 22,075 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located about 240 km east of the capital Kazan between the Republic here for Nischnekamsker reservoir dammed Kama and its right tributary Toima.

Mendelejewsk is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons.

The town lies on the railway line Akbasch ( at Bugulma ) Naberezhnye Chelny - Agrys ( station Tichonowo ).

History

Near the older Dordes Bondjuga 1868 arose in connection with the construction of the chemical plant Bondjuschski Sawod by the Kaufmann P. Uschkow a settlement, from which emerged the modern city.

In 1928 she was awarded the status of an urban-type settlement under the name Bondjuschski. In 1967 the villages Bondjuga, Tichije Gory and Lenino were (formerly Kamaschewo ) incorporated and the town right under the present name given ( by Dmitri Mendeleev, who worked in the chemical plant for a short time ).

Demographics

Note: Census data (1939-1959 rounded sum of the numbers of inhabitants in later merged settlements and villages)

Culture and sights

In Mendelejewsk the manor house and the office buildings of the former owner of the chemical plant and the Church of the Epiphany ( Богоявленская церковь / Bogoyavlensky Tserkov ) obtained from the 19th century. In 1995, a new mosque was built in the city.

Mendelejewsk has since 1994 a local museum. Part of the exhibition is dedicated to the poet and writer Boris Pasternak, who spent today in the district Tichije Gory on the banks of the Kama the summer of 1917.

Other attractions in the area include church and school building in the village Ilnet and the mosque in the village of Tatarsky Kokschan. In the village there is a Turajewo Hun grave mound.

Economy

Main businesses are the L. - Yes. - Karpov Chemical Plant and the Nowomendelejewski - chemical plant, also the supplier for the near KAMAZ Naberezhnye Chelny plant Awtokam - Toima.

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