Belinsky is a town and the administrative center of Belinsky District

Belinsky District

Belinsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the 27 in Penza Oblast, Russia....

 of Penza Oblast

Penza Oblast

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, Russia

Russia

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, located at the confluence

Confluence

Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water.Confluence may also refer to:* Confluence , a property of term rewriting systems...

 of the Bolshoy

Bolshoy Chembar River

Bolshoy Chembar River is a river of Penza Oblast, Russia. It joins the Maly Chembar River near Belinsky ....

 and Maly Chembar River

Maly Chembar River

Maly Chembar River is a river of Penza Oblast, Russia. It joins the Bolshoy Chembar River near Belinsky ....

s, 129 kilometres (80.2 mi) west of Penza

Penza

-Honors:A minor planet, 3189 Penza, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1978, is named after the city.-Notable residents:...

. Population:

It was first mentioned in 1713. In 1780, it was granted town status and named Chembar . In 1798, it was abolished, but in 1801 it was re-instated as a town. In 1948, it was renamed after Vissarion Belinsky

Vissarion Belinsky

Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. He was an associate of Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Bakunin , and other critical intellectuals...

 who spent his childhood

Childhood

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here.