In the Volga-Vyatka district in the Volga region, the Kirov region is located , the population of which is 1,200 thousand people, of which 76% is the urban population. The list of cities in the Kirov region includes 18 settlements, the largest is the administrative center - Kirov. It was founded in 1174 as the city of Vyatka, then it was renamed in Khlynov in 1457, and in 1780 they returned their former name. Only in 1934 began to be called Kirov, where currently 500 thousand people live.
Cities of the Kirov region: list
Currently, the region includes only 18 cities, including Kirov, with a different population: from 6 to 73 thousand cities, not counting the regional center.
The second largest population in the list of cities in the Kirov region is Kirovo-Chepetsk, where 73 thousand people live, although it was founded only in 1935 as a workers' village. This is an important settlement for the region, as industry is developed here: chemical, mechanical engineering, production and distribution of electricity.
In addition to these two cities, the region includes the following:
- Nolinsk.
- Urzhum.
- Goosebumps.
- Pocket.
- White Kholunitsa.
- Orlov.
- Zuevka.
- Sosnovka.
- Soviet.
- Yaransk.
- Omutninsk.
- Kotelnich.
- Vyatskiye Polyany.
- Slobodskoy.
- Malmyzh.
- Kearse.
Cities of the Kirov region: list by population
As mentioned earlier, the largest are Kirov and Kirovo-Chepetsk. 32 and 33 thousand people respectively live in Vyatka Polyana and Slobodsky. Both settlements were formed in the 16th century and have a rich history.
Once upon a time, a Udmurt settlement was located on the site of the Vyatskiye Polyany, and in addition to this people Tatars and Mari lived. Then the village was formed in 1595, as the patrimony of the Vyatka Assumption Monastery, and only in 1942 it received the status of a city.
Slobodskoy was formed in 1489 and already in 1780 it became a city. It was founded as a fortress, as it is located on the banks of the river, where on one side there is a cliff, and on the other, it is easy to track down enemies. The first buildings date back to the 13th century, but before the formation of the settlement, the buildings were rebuilt several times. A little later, the Kremlin and the Posad were built, where people lived, and then the Epiphany Monastery. The trading network developed very quickly, and as early as 1628 there were 35 shops and 40 trading establishments; the construction of wooden churches was rapidly going on.
The list of cities in the Kirov region with a population of less than 30 and more than 15 thousand people includes only 4 cities: Sovetsk, Omutninsk, Yaransk, Kotelnich. The most ancient is considered Kotelnich, which was created in 1181 and belongs to the list of small historical cities of Russia.
The smallest cities
Small settlements, such as Murashi and Orlov, where a little more than 6 thousand people live, close the list of cities in the Kirov region.
Despite the fact that Murashi was founded in 1895 as a settlement at the station, it does not have a rich history. Today, thanks to the presence of enterprises of the railway station and wood processing factories, people remain to live in this place.
The city of Orlov was founded in the 12th – 13th centuries and became famous for the fact that during the reign of Nicholas II it was a place where revolutionaries were exiled. In 1923 it was renamed in honor of the revolutionary Stepan Khalturin and given the name Khalturin, and only in 1992 they returned the previous name.