Volzhsk

Volzhsk is located on the left bank of the Volga ( Kuibyshev reservoir ), at the extreme southern point of the republic, 101 km south of its capital Yoshkar-Ola and 49 km from the millionaire city of Kazan . In the south it borders with the republic of Chuvashia, in the east - with the republic of Tatarstan.

The city has close ties with Zelenodolsky located 12 km east of the city, and also gravitates to the agglomeration of Kazan , despite the fact that they are located in another region - Tatarstan ^[3] . There is a connection with other regions on transport routes:

• highway Kazan - Yoshkar-Ola;
• section of the highway passing through the Cheboksary hydroelectric power station between Kazan and Cheboksary ;
• railway line Gorky railway Kazan - Zeleny Dol - Yoshkar-Ola ;
• shipping lanes along the Volga river.

• The average annual temperature is 4.3 ° C
• Average wind speed - 3.2 m / s

The emergence of Volzhsk is associated with the close proximity of the forest zone and the construction of woodworking plants. The economy and the fate of the city were determined by the construction in 1938 of the Marbum Combine, which has all-Union significance. It solved the problem of the production of technical types of paper purchased at that time abroad. The construction of the Marbum Plant became a city-forming factor: housing construction was developed, the need arose for the construction of public utilities, kindergartens, and schools. With the launch of the industrial giant, the village of Lopatino was further developed, which in 1940 received the status of the city of Volzhsk.

Crucial for the socio-economic development of the city was the construction of a hydrolysis-yeast plant, an electromechanical plant in the late 60s and early 70s, as a result of which Volzhsk became a city of machine builders. In 1987, the first Soviet-Italian joint production of refrigeration equipment Sovitalprodmash was created in the country. For the builders and workers of these enterprises, residential neighborhoods were built: Druzhba, Mashinostroitel, VDK, Severny with a developed infrastructure.

In the 1990s, socio-economic problems sharply worsened in the city. Volzhsk was actually ruined. In 1999, debts for utility bills amounted to colossal figures for the entire republic, and interruptions in the supply of heat and water began. The mayor of Volzhsk was arrested, and the townspeople initiated a petition for a transition to a more prosperous Tatarstan, which, however, was not supported by the authorities, and the transition did not take place. The Republic of Mari El took over the payment debts. The deepest economic crisis was witnessed by the unfinished construction in the city center (now the Ariada Hotel) and the closure of the only Rodina movie theater, the building of which has unique architectural significance and is still in a dilapidated state.

The current state of the city is characterized by a high degree of integration with Zelenodolsk and the Republic of Tatarstan, resumed construction in the housing and communal and social spheres. Since 2015, work has been progressively carried out on the development program for 2015–2020, which provides for large-scale reconstruction. First of all, this is the improvement of the central streets, the resumed construction of multi-storey buildings and the resettlement of emergency and dilapidated housing, the construction of sports facilities. However, the process is extremely slow.

As of January 1, 2019, in terms of population, the city was on the 307th place out of 1,115 ^[22] cities of the Russian Federation ^[23] .

National composition

The national composition of the city of Volzhsk according to the 2010 All-Russian Population Census . According to the census, representatives of more than 55 nationalities live in the city ^[24] .

The city is divided into 9 residential areas:

1. "Central"
2. "Dawn" ("East")
3. "Machine builder"
4. "Friendship"
5. "VDK"
6. "Northern"
7. Gorgaz
8. “Western” (“Meadow”)
9. Mamasevo

And 2 industrial areas:

1. "Coastal"
2. Promuzel

In addition, the city includes:

1. Kulatsky village
2. The village of Ariada
3. Village Russian Lugovaya

According to the master plan, the borders of the city come close to the new (bypass) road from Yoshkar-Ola to Kazan.

Higher

The Volga branch of the Volga State Technological University (former ICBT) operates in the city.

Medium

• 9 secondary schools and lyceum (schools No. 1-6, Volzhsky city lyceum No. 7, No. 9-12, school buildings under construction);
• Boarding school;
• Night school;
• 21 preschool educational institutions (including 1 under construction);
• College of Civil Engineering (GOU SPO SPK, former prof. Lyceum No. 4, GPTU No. 4);
• Volzhsky industrial technical school;
• Volga Children's Ecological Center;
• Volga branch of the Medical School of Yoshkar-Ola;
• School of Music (music school);
• 3 art schools (LH);
• Exemplary choreographic ensemble "School of Dance";
• Dance Show-group "Artes" on the basis of the secondary school № 9 named after A. Pushkin;
• Specialized children and youth sports school of the Olympic reserve.

The city’s production assets include 31 budget-forming enterprises, of which 17 are large and medium-sized enterprises and 14 are small enterprises. In total, about 100 large and small enterprises are based in the city. All of them are located on the industrial sites of the city - the industrial areas “Coastal” (occupies the Volga coast within the Central microdistrict) and “Promuzel” (significantly removed from urban development, bordered by the Mamasevo microdistrict)

The most significant enterprises:

• Mari Pulp and Paper Mill (Marbum Combine ) - one of the largest pulp and paper enterprises in Mari El and Russia;
• Volzhsky Hydrolysis Yeast Plant OJSC;
• MPGO “Volzhsk” - works with IKEA;
• CJSC Sovitalprodmash Plant and numerous companies selling refrigeration equipment of its production;
• Ariada CJSC - a manufacturer of refrigeration equipment, the main enterprise of the city of Volzhsk, allows attracting a large amount of financial resources and jobs to the population in the city;
• OJSC "Gran" - developer and manufacturer of industrial freezing, refrigeration and heat transfer equipment;
• Agio LLC - a large furniture company, one of the largest in Mari El;
• AS-M - one of the largest furniture production in the Volga Federal District;
• Volzhsky plant of building materials - production of cellular aerated concrete (ТМ "Bikton") - built "from scratch" in 2010;
• Fant Furniture - a large furniture company from the Republic of Tatarstan;
• Meat processing plant "Akashevsky".

The share of paper production is 29%, the share of engineering - 32%, the share of small and medium-sized businesses, services, etc. - 39%.

• Two marinas on the Volga: marina "Zarya" (serves only industrial vessels), marina "Mayak" (routes to Kozlovka, Sviyazhsk and Cheboksary).
• City bus station: direct directions to Kazan, Yoshkar-Ola, Cheboksary, Moscow, Zelenodolsk and the region.
• Volzhsk railway station - line to Zelenodolsk - Kazan (Kazan-Passenger) - Biryuli (via Kazan-Uprising);
• Railway platform Marbumkombinat (reconstructed in 2019);
• Minibus taxi - about 18 registered companies, the majority belongs to the Republic of Tatarstan.
• Bus routes within the city are served by Volzhsky Passenger Transportation LLC. There are 8 routes in total:

1. Bus station - Russian Meadow

4. Dawn - Prodmash - Dawn (through Friendship)

5. Dawn - Gorgaz

7. Bus Station - Mechanical Engineer

8. Mechanical Engineer - Bus Station

9. Bus Station - Beach (Seasonal)

12. Dawn - Mechanical Engineer

403. Volzhsk-bus station - Zelenodolsk-bus station

The waiting interval for city buses is 5-7 minutes for all buses, except for route 12 (30 minutes), to Zelenodolsk - 10 minutes, Kazan - 20 minutes, to the Industrial District - 1 hour, to Yoshkar-Ola - 30 minutes. The bus runs to Cheboksary once a day.

In 2016, it was announced the cancellation of railway communication throughout the Mari El Republic, including the Kazan-Volzhsk electric train, which for six months followed to Art. Paratsk (Zelenodolsk city). However, already in 2017, two pairs of trains were again extended to the station. Volzhsk due to technological necessity (lack of overnight tracks for trains of electric trains at neighboring stations Zelenodolsk and Paratsk). In March, the stop Marbumkombinat in the old part of the city was returned. The administration said that a six-month break in service was associated with repairs in the building of the railway station. In 2019, the Marbum Plant platform was reconstructed.

• The memorial "Angel of Good and Peace" in the square to them. Vasilieva. The memorial was laid in 2012 at the expense of a public figure and the head of Ariad CJSC V.G. Vasiliev (1942-2016) including in memory of the events in Beslan.
• Monument to V.I. Lenin on Sovetskaya Square in front of the administration. It was reconstructed in 2015 by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation .
• Museum of Local Lore on Sovetskaya Square (formerly CPSU Civil Code). The museum building has unique architectural significance and is currently undergoing reconstruction.
• Square "The Heart of the City" ^[25] .
• Architectural cinema includes the Rodina Cinema, secondary school building No. 3, the dining room building of the woodworking plant, the Culture Center of the Moscow Central Bank, the building of the former. CC CPSU. Residential quarters of German buildings in the central part have cultural significance. The cinema is in a very depressing state, despite constant talk about the upcoming reconstruction.
• Heroes Avenue, Victory Square and Park: a monument to the Fallen Soldiers, eternal flame, busts of Volga heroes of the Great Patriotic War and other monuments.
• In the vicinity of the city are the Mari Chodra National Park (Maple Mountain, Zeleny Klyuch, Pugacheva Oak ), dozens of lakes of karst origin (the most visited - Lake Yalchik ) and numerous springs (the most famous in the village of Karay ).

The city has several large parks of virgin forests that define the green framework of the city: the Park of Culture and Leisure, Victory Park (old park), Druzhba Park, Mashinostroitel Park, Victory Square, ICBC and Oak Grove.

The transport axes determine the most important city streets (Lenin, Gagarin, Shestakov, Prokhorov, 107th Brigade, Koshkin, etc.) and squares (Sovetskaya, Victory, 170th anniversary of the death of A.S. Pushkin, Dobra and Mira im. Vasiliev).

There are several houses of culture in the city: the Culture Center of the ICBC, the Youth Center, the Central Palace of Culture and Arts “Zvezdny”, the City Center of Culture.

Sports facilities are represented by 3 city stadiums (City, Drevkombinat, Marbum Arena), 44 sports halls, 2 swimming pools; 2 sports palaces (one of them is an ice palace); 1 ski base and 1 ski resort;

Health facilities include the Volga Central District Hospital and 7 city polyclinics.

Every year, the city hosts an international music festival. Andrey Baranov ("Mamakabo").

Volzhsk is the smallest city in Russia with its own hockey team ( Ariada ), which plays at the national level. Since 2016, the team has been called "Ariada-NH" and belongs to the hockey team of NK- "Neftekhimik" in Nizhnekamsk. Since 2017, participation in the Higher Hockey League has been completed, the team has actually been disbanded. The reason is the closure of funding from the main sponsor of Ariad CJSC, which faced economic problems.

• St. Nicholas Cathedral.
• Church of them. John of Kronstadt.
• Church of All Mourners Joy.
• City mosque.
• Church of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

• Andrei Vladimirovich Baranov - Russian composer and virtuoso guitarist.
• Camille Samigullin is the supreme mufti of the Republic of Tatarstan.

Printed

• Newspaper Volzhskaya Pravda
• Newspaper Volzhskiye Vesti ^[26]

Network

• Network edition "Volzhsk 24"

Radio

The following radio stations can be received:

• VHF 70.70 - Mari El Radio
• FM 88.7 - NRJ
• FM 89.7 - Juicy Radio
• FM 90.7 - Russian Radio
• FM 94.7 - Radio Dacha
• FM 95.3 - Traffic Radio
• FM 96.2 - Radio Chanson
• FM 102.8 - Bim Radio ^[27]
• FM 104.7 - DFM
• FM 105.0 - Radio of Chuvashia
• FM 105.8 - Echo of Moscow
• FM 107.8 - LoveRadio

The city has its own television channel - TelecomTV. In addition, the Volzhsk FM radio station operates on the territory of the city.

•   Zelenodolsk

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  Museum of Local Lore (Former Building of the CPSU District Committee), 2019

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  Ruined cinema building, 2019

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  Obelisk to fellow soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War

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  Soviet square

• The working village of Lopatino // City of Volzhsk. - Yoshkar-Ola , 2007. - S. 12-15. - 320 p. - (History of villages and villages of the Mari El Republic). - 1,500 copies - ISBN 978-5-87898-376-1 .
• Volzhsk // Encyclopedia of the Republic of Mari El / Otv. ed. N. I. Saraeva. - Yoshkar-Ola, 2009 .-- S. 286. - 872 p. - 3505 copies. - ISBN 978-5-94950-049-1 .

• Volzhsk in the encyclopedia "My city".
• Volzhsk on the site "Annals. RU".
• The site of the socio-political newspaper Volzhskaya Pravda .
• The site of the Volzhskiye Vesti-Yulver newspaper is the official organ of the Volzhsk City Administration.
• Information site of Volzhsk.
• Information and reference portal of the city of Volzhsk.
• Mari El Republic. The official internet portal. Administration of the city district "Volzhsk City".