Malmyzh is a town and the administrative center of Malmyzhsky District

Malmyzhsky District

Malmyzhsky District is an administrative district , one of the 39 in Kirov Oblast, Russia....

 of Kirov Oblast

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

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located on the Shoshma River

Shoshma River

The Shoshma is a river in Mari El, Tatarstan and Kirov Oblast, Russian Federation, a right-bank tributary of the Vyatka River. Its length is 112 km and its drainage basin is 1,885 km². It origins near Maly Kiner, Mari El and falls to the Vyatka near Malmyzh, Kirov Oblast.Major tributaries are...

 (Vyatka

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 tributary

Tributary

A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...

), near its confluence

Confluence

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 with the Zasora, Moksha

Moksha River

Moksha is a river in central Russia, a right tributary of the Oka River. It is 656 kilometres in length....

, and Krupny Lach Rivers, 294 kilometres (182.7 mi) southeast 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 first mentioned as the Mari village of Malmyzh in the 15th century. Malmyzh was the capital of Mari Malmyzh principality subordinated to Kazan

Kazan

Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...

. Mari prince Boltush (Poltysh) offered resistance to Russian

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

 offensive and was kill by a cannon-ball on April, the 26, 1556. Russian fortress was built here in 1584 to suppress recalcitrant Mari people. It has had town status since 1780.