Kinel (russian: Кинель) is a
city
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in
Samara Oblast
Samara Oblast ( rus, Сама́рская о́бласть, r=Samarskaya oblast, p=sɐˈmarskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Samara. From 1935 to 1991, it was known as Kuyb ...
,
Russia
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, located on the
Bolshoy Kinel River near its
confluence with the
Samara River
The Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə) is a river in Russia and a left-bank tributary of the Volga. It flows into the larger river at the city of Samara. Its largest tributary is the Bolshoy Kinel. It is long, and its drainage basin ...
, east of
Samara. Population:
History
It was founded in 1837. In 1877, during the construction of the Samara–
Orenburg railroad, the
railway station of Kinel was built nearby. The station became a
junction
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by 1888. In 1944, Kinel was granted city status.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the
framework of administrative divisions, Kinel serves as the
administrative center
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune is located.
In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, Lu ...
of
Kinelsky District,
even though it is not a part of it.
As an administrative division, it is, together with two
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
s, incorporated separately as the
city of federal subject significance
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of Kinel—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the
districts.
[Charter of Samara Oblast''] As a
municipal division, the town of oblast significance of Kinel is incorporated as Kinel Urban Okrug.
[Law #189-GD]
References
Notes
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Cities and towns in Samara Oblast