Mendeleyevsk (russian: Менделе́евск; tt-Cyrl, Менделеевск) is a

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and the

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Mendeleyevsky District Mendeleyevsky District (russian: link=no, Менделе́евский райо́н; tt-Cyrl, Менделеев районы, ''Mendeleyev rayonı'') is a territorial administrative unit and municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan withi ...

in the Republic of Tatarstan,

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, located on the right bank of Nizhnekamskoye Reservoir, from the republic's

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Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...

. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 22,075.

History

It was founded as the '' selo'' of Bondyuga () in the 18th century.''Inhabited Localities of the Republic of Tatarstan'', p. 188 It was granted

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 ...

status and renamed Bondyuzhsky () in 1928. In 1967, it was granted town status and given its present name after Dmitry Mendeleyev, who visited the factory there.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Mendeleyevsk serves as the

, to which it is directly subordinated.Order #01-02/9 As a municipal division, the

of Mendeleyevsk is incorporated within Mendeleyevsky Municipal District as Mendeleyevsk Urban Settlement.Law #29-ZRT

Economy

As of 1997, industrial enterprises in the town included a chemical plant, a bakery, and a fertilizer factory. Begishevo, the nearest airport, is located south of Mendeleyevsk. The nearest railway station is Tikhonovo on the

Agryz Agryz (russian: Агры́з; tt-Cyrl, Әгерҗе, ''Ägerce'') is a town and the administrative center of Agryzsky District in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the Izh River (Volga's basin), east of Kazan. As of the 2010 Census ...

–Akbash line, to the south.

Demographics

As of 1989, the population was ethnically mostly

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

(48.5%), Russian (43.6%), Udmurt (2.4%), and Mari (2.1%).

Notable people

Kapiton Ushkov Kapiton Yakovlevich Ushkov ( rus, Капитон Ушков) (1813–1868) was a Russian serf who became a major chemical industrialist in Tatarstan. He was born in Bonduga, a village near Yelabuga, in Tatarstan. Bonduga was subsequently renamed ...

(1813–1868), a serf who became a major chemical industrialist

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* * * {{Use mdy dates, date=November 2012 Cities and towns in Tatarstan Populated places on the Kama River Yelabuzhsky Uyezd