Tsivilsk

Ziwilsk (Russian Цивильск, Chuvash Çĕрпӳ / Çĕrpü ) is a Russian city in the Autonomous Republic of Chuvashia within the Volga Federal District. It is the administrative seat of Rajons Ziwilsk and has 13,479 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

• 4.1 Convent of the Mother of God of Tikhvin

Geography

Ziwilsk is located about 780 km east of Moscow and 33 km south-east of the Republic capital Cheboksary in the Volga heights at the confluence of the river Maly ( Little ) and Bolshoy ( Big ) Ziwil, which together form the Ziwil, a tributary of the Volga.

History

Ziwilsk first appears in 1584 in an edict of the ruler Boris Godunov, who built a fort at the confluence of Maly and Bolshoi Ziwil instead of a Chuvash (formerly Volga Bulgarian ) village, from 1590 grew a settlement. 1774 place under Yemelyan Pugachev was occupied by insurgents. 1781 was awarded Ziwilsk the status of a district town.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

In the city there are farms for food production as well as a brick. Through the 8 km southwest near the settlement Mikhailovka railway station, the city is connected to the rail network.

Near Ziwilsk is a 350 meter high radio mast to the spread of FM and TV programs.

Attractions

In addition to some historic wooden buildings, the house of a merchant family Tolmatchev are ( Дом Толмачёвых, 18th Century ) and the Trinity Church ( Троицкий собор, 1734) worth mentioning.

Monastery of Our Lady of Tikhvin

According to the founding legend, the citizenry should have gratitude founded in 1671, this monastery that the city was spared from occupation by the insurgent troops of Stenka Razin. For this miracle, and a copy of the icon of Our Lady of Tikhvin was blamed, which had formerly been in the urban Trinity Church and was henceforth kept in the monastery newly formed Ascension. The abbey remained, however, of no great importance, was in 1764 owned by the state over and fell into disrepair. It was not until 1870 it was revived as a nunnery and was doing its present patronage. The majority of the building was rebuilt in the following decades; inter alia, 1872 was a convent school, which adopted in particular the training of local tschwaschischer girl. 1925, the monastery was dissolved and converted into a premises. Since its return to the church in 1998, the plant will be restored.