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Key facts
- Country
- Russia
- Federal subject
- Penza Oblast
- Administrative district
- Belinsky District
- Town of district significance selsoviet
- Belinsky
- Founded
- 1713 (first mentioned), 1801 (re-established)
- Elevation
- 190 m (620 ft)
- Total
- 8,565
- Estimate 2021
- 8,656 ( +1.1% )
- Capital of
- Belinsky District, town of district significance of Belinsky
- Municipal district
- Belinsky Municipal District
- Urban settlement
- Belinsky Urban Settlement
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( MSK )
- Postal codes
- 442250, 442289
- Website
- gbelinsk .belinskij .pnzreg .ru
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Vissarion Belinsky
- Official name
- Чембар
- Country
- Russia
- Population
- 8656
- Area
- 8
- Elevation
- 190
- Official website
- gbelinsk.belinskij.pnzreg.ru
- Image
- Памятник В.И. Ленину на фоне бывшего Покровского храма г. Белинского.jpg
- Dialing code
- 84153
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- Commons category
- Belinsky
- postal code
- 442250
- native label
- Чембар
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- time of earliest written record
- 1708-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Belinsky (Russian: Бели́нский) is a town and the administrative center of Belinsky District in Penza Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the rivers Bolshoy Chembar and Maly Chembar, 129 kilometers (80 mi) west of Penza, the administrative center of the oblast. Population: 8,565 (2010 census); 8,837 (2002 census); 9,028 (1989 Soviet census).
It was previously known as Chembar (until 1948).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Belinsky” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.