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Key facts
- Tatar
- Болгар
- Country
- Russia
- Federal subject
- Tatarstan
- Administrative district
- Spassky District
- Total
- 8.0 km (3.1 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 80 m (260 ft)
- Estimate 2021
- 8,285 ( −4.2% )
- Density
- 1,100/km (2,800/sq mi)
- Capital of
- Spassky District
- Municipal district
- Spassky Municipal District
- Urban settlement
- Bolgar Urban Settlement
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( MSK )
- Postal codes
- 422840, 422869
- Dialing code
- +7 84347
- Website
- spasskiy .tatarstan .ru /rus /mo-gorod-bolgar .htm
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- administrative divisions of Russia
- Named after
- Bulgars
- Official name
- Спасск
- Country
- Volga Bulgaria
- Located in
- Spassky District
- Official language
- Russian
- Population
- 8285
- Area
- 116
- Elevation
- 80
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Capital of
- Spassky Uyezd
- Official website
- spasskiy.tatarstan.ru/mo-gorod-bolgar.htm
- Image
- Bolgar mosque.jpeg
- Dialing code
- 84347
- Significant event
- Battle of the Kondurcha River
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- Commons category
- Bolghar
- postal code
- 422840
- topic's main category
- Category:Bolghar
- time of earliest written record
- 0901-00-00
- native label
- Болгар
- inception
- 0900-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Bolgar (Russian: Болгар; Tatar: Болгар) is a town and the administrative center of Spassky District in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the left bank of the Volga River, 140 kilometers (87 mi) from Kazan. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 8,650.
It was previously known as Spassk (until 1926), Spassk-Tatarsky (until 1935), Kuybyshev (until 1991).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bolğar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.