Kirovo-Chepetsk
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Kirov Oblast
Kirov Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . Its administrative center is the city of Kirov. Population: -History:In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Vyatka remained a place of exile for opponents of the tsarist regime, including many prominent revolutionary figures.In 1920, a number of...
, 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 Cheptsa
Cheptsa River
The Cheptsa is a river in the north part of Udmurtian Republic and eastern Kirov Oblast, in Russia. It flows through the city Glazov and flows into the Vyatka River in Kirovo-Chepetsk, east of Kirov....
and the Vyatka River
Vyatka River
The Vyatka River is a river in Kirov Oblast and the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia, right tributary of the Kama River. It is 1,314 km in length. The area of its basin is 129,000 km²....
s, 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) east of Kirov
Kirov, Kirov Oblast
Kirov , formerly known as Vyatka and Khlynov, is a city in northeastern European Russia, on the Vyatka River, and the administrative center of Kirov Oblast. Population: -History:...
. Population:
It was founded in the mid-15th century as the village of Ust-Cheptsa . Town status was granted to it in 1955.
The 50th eastern meridian
Meridian (geography)
A meridian is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface from the North Pole to the South Pole that connects all locations along it with a given longitude. The position of a point along the meridian is given by its latitude. Each meridian is perpendicular to all circles of latitude...
runs exactly through the town.
Notable residents
- Former Soviet national hockey team players Vladimir MyshkinVladimir MyshkinVladimir Semenovich Myshkin is a former ice hockey goaltender. He was a goaltender for HC Dynamo Moscow and the Soviet Union national ice hockey team in the 1970s and 1980s....
and Alexander Maltsev.