Mendeleyevsk
Sign in to saveMendeleyevsk (; ) is a town and the administrative center of Mendeleyevsky District in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the right bank of Nizhnekamskoye Reservoir, from the republic's capital of Kazan. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 22,075.
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_name1
- Менделеевск
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Mendeleyevsk
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Менделеевск
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_lang1
- Tatar
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Mendeleyevsk вид сверху4.jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.image_caption
- View of Mendeleyevsk
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- bottom
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Mendeleyevsk (Tatarstan).png
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Republic of Tatarstan
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Mendeleyevsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of
- Mendeleyevsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Town
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Mendeleyevsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Mendeleyevsk Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of1
- Mendeleyevsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of2
- Mendeleyevsk Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.area_km2
- 14.1
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 22075
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Менделєєвськ
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Yelabuga County
- Population
- 22875
- Area
- 30.65
- Elevation
- 100
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Kama
- Capital of
- Mendeleyevsky District
- Official website
- mendeleevsk.tatarstan.ru
- Image
- Менделеевск вид сверху.jpg
- Dialing code
- 85549
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- Commons category
- Mendeleevsk
- inception
- 1868-01-01
- postal code
- 423650
- topic's main category
- Category:Mendeleyevsk
- native label
- Менделеевск
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Encyclopedic overview
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Mendeleyevsk (; ) is a town and the administrative center of Mendeleyevsky District in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located on the right bank of Nizhnekamskoye Reservoir, from the republic's capital of Kazan. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 22,075.
==History== It was founded as the selo of Bondyuga () in the 18th century. It was granted urban-type settlement 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. The name comes because was Prof.Mendeleev who produced there the first batch of the smokeless Russian powder he developed at his Cankt Peterburg laboratory. The so-called "pyrocollodion". A single base powder similar to the British "cordite", the one still used in .303 British.
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