Syzran

Sysran (Russian Сызрань, scientific transliteration: Syzran ') is a city with 178 750 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) on the right bank of the lower Volga in Samara Oblast in Russia.

The city is situated on the banks of the Saratov Reservoir of the Volga River, about 120 km west of the regional capital Samara and approximately 30 km north of the administrative border with the Ulyanovsk Oblast. The urban area stretches along the Volga shore for a distance of up to 17 km. The nearest town is 19 km west of Oktyabrsk Sysran.

History

Sysran was founded in 1683 as a fortress, which had the purpose to protect the safety of the running there trade route because the current urban area at that time, near the eastern border of the Russian Tsardom was and thus was considered to be at risk. The name Sysran goes back to the same river, whose name in turn originates from the Turkic languages ​​and originally something like " out of the canyon flowing" meant.

However, the fortress lost its military significance Sysran already in the early 18th century. Instead rapidly developed in the place of trade, which has been favored by its location right on the Volga. End of the century Sysran was already an important trade center of the Volga Region, which is why it was awarded the 1781 city status and its own coat of arms.

1874 was the city with the construction of the almost 1,400 -kilometer railway line Sysran - Wjasma its own train station and six years later a railway bridge across the Volga. This fostered not only trade, but also the industrialization. Beginning of the 20th century was Sysran already an important industrial city and one of the largest centers of grain processing in Russia.

After the October Revolution of 1917, the economic profile Sysrans began to change: the main industry was no longer the grain processing, but the extraction and processing of mica slate, which was first used later as fuel, as a raw material in the pharmaceutical industry. In addition, other industries such as engineering and crude oil processing were built in Sysran during the Soviet era. In addition, in the times of the Second World War a number of factories in the more western parts of Russia was evacuated to Sysran. The city itself was due to its location by the fighting spared, which also explains the historical cityscape today relatively well preserved.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and Transport

Thanks to the built in Soviet times Sysran factories, the city is still regarded as an important industrial center of Samara Oblast. Among the biggest companies Sysrans include an oil refinery, a plastic factory, a factory for agricultural machines and one for oil production facilities, further comprising a thermal power station and enterprises of light industry, wood processing and the food industry.

The city is located on the highway M5 and is also an important railway junction, whose main railway stations in the main and marshalling yard Syzran ' I and another rail yard east of the town on the road to Samara ( station Oktyabrsk ) are. The urban public transport consists of several bus lines and, since September 2002, also from a trolley bus, making the Sysraner Obussystem is currently the youngest in Russia.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Natalya Ionowa ( born 1986 ), pop singer
  • Mikhail Korniyenko (* 1960), Cosmonaut
  • Valery Loginov ( b. 1955 ), chess player
  • Vladimir Trofimenko (* 1953), Athlete
  • Vyacheslav Tschebanenko (1942-1997), chess player
  • Evelina Dobraceva ( b. 1975 ), opera singer
  • Yekaterina Wetkowa (* 1986), Women's Handball
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