Kirovsky City District (; , ) is a city district of
Kazan
Kazan; , IPA: Help:IPA/Tatar, É‘zanis the largest city and capital city, capital of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka (river), Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of , with a population of over 1. ...
,
the
capital
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Econom ...
of the
Republic of Tatarstan
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,
Russia
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. It occupies the western part of Kazan. Its area is . Population:
It has a common administration with Moskovsky City District.
The district has borders with
Zelenodolsky District
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to the west,
Moskovsky City District to the north and east,
Vakhitovsky City District to the south-east (mostly through
Kazanka and
Volga
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rivers) and
Verkhneuslonsky District
Verkhneuslonsky District (; ) is a territorial administrative unit and municipality of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russia, Russian Federation. The district is located in the west of the republic on the right bank of the Volga River and enc ...
to the south (through Volga).
History
South-eastern part of the district has been part of Kazan from as early as XIX century. By 1910s, the neighbourhoods (
sloboda
A sloboda was a type of settlement in the history of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The name is derived from the early Slavic word for 'freedom' and may be loosely translated as 'free settlement'. s) of Admiralteyskaya Sloboda, Yagodnaya Sloboda, Bolshoye Igumnovo, Maloye Igumnovo, Grivka and Dalneye Ustye were part of the 6th police district of Kazan.
Obyedinyonno-Slobodskoy District (, ) was created as a
party
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-territorial unit on
April 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Pisonian conspiracy, Piso's plot to kill the Roman emperor, Emperor Nero and all of the List of conspiracies (political), conspirators are arrested.
* 531 – Battle of Callini ...
,
1919
Events
January
* January 1
** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (later Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia.
** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off th ...
.
In 1925 was renamed Zarechensky District (, ) and became an administrative district. By that time, there were 14 settlements under the district's jurisdiction: 6 aforementioned neighbourhoods, Kozya Sloboda, Kizichskaya Sloboda, Krylovka, Novaya Stroyka, Savinovskaya Stroyka, Porokhovaya Sloboda, Udelnaya Stroyka, Ivanovaskaya Stroyka; last three of them were merged into Vosstaniya Sloboda. Nearly all of them were located on the northern bank of
Kazanka River
The Kazanka (; ) is a river in the Russian Federation, a left tributary of the Volga. The Kazanka begins near the village of Bimeri in Arsk District and flows into the Kuybyshev Reservoir in Kazan, near the Kazan Kremlin. Other towns on the Kazan ...
, in the city part called Zarechye, hence the name of the district.
It was again renamed in 1931, this time to Proletarsky District (, ).
In 1934, eastern part of Zarechye was ceded to newly formed
Leninsky District.
The district was given its present-day name in 1935.
In mid-1950s, part of the district fell into the flooding zone of the
Kuybyshev Reservoir
Kuybyshev Reservoir or Kuybyshevskoye Reservoir () is a reservoir of the middle Volga and lower Kama in Chuvashia, Mari El Republic, Republic of Tatarstan, Samara Oblast and Ulyanovsk Oblast, Russia. It is sometimes called as Samara Reservoir an ...
: the entire neighbourhood of Dalneye Ustye, small parts of Admiralteyskaya Sloboda, Yagodnaya Sloboda, Bolshoye Igumnovo and Maloye Igumnovo were flooded; several enterprises were relocated from flooding zone, most notable of them being Kazan river port, which was relocated to Yaña Bistä area.
[Decision No. 8 of the Executive Committee of the Kazan City Council of Workers' Deputies (January 12, 1956)]
District leadership
First secretaries of District
Party
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Committee:
* Edmund Żebrowski (1918)
* Mikhalyov (1919)
* Möxämmätcan Möxämmätşin (1919–1920)
* Aleksande Ochkov (1920)
* Afanasy Zharkov (1920)
* Vasliy Lazarev (1920–1921)
* Arseny Vanyushin (1921–1922)
* Ivan Ponedelko (1922–1924)
* Ğäliulla Qasıymof (1924)
* Miñgäräy Säğidullin (1924)
* Ivan Ponedelko (1925–1926)
* Filipp Fyodorov (1926–1927)
* Mikhail Prusakov (1927–1928)
* Yakov Rozenberg (1928)
* Pavel Aksyonov (1928–1930)
* Solomon Ioffe (1930–1931)
* Sergey Korovin (1931–1932)
* Stepan Anikin (1933–1934)
* Vasily Fomichyov (1935–1937)
* Mikhail Kuzmin (1937)
* Ğäli Däwlätqazin (1937–1938)
* Grigory Tikhonov (1938–1940)
* Pavel Delvin (1941–1942)
* Samuil Tarakanov (1942–1946)
* Vasliy Ilyin (1946–1951)
* Nikolay Kozlov (1951–1955)
* Aleksandr Serebrennikov (1955–1959)
* Vladislav Muravyov (1959–1960)
* Mariya Shikhova (1960)
* Sergey Bogatyryov (1961–1966)
* Igor Naumov (1966–1971)
* Mars Rämief (1971–1978)
* İduard Qançurin (1978–1985)
* Gennady Zertsalov (1985–1987)
* Rawil Sabitof (1987–1991)
Notes
References
{{Districts of Kazan
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