Kirov Oblast, Russia

Kirov or Kirovskaya Oblast is the subject of the Russian Federation. It is part of the Volga Federal District. Refers to the Volga-Vyatka Economic District. The territory of the region is 120 374 km². The population is 1,138 112 people. (2023). The urban population is 78.7 % (2022).

The administrative center is the city of Kirov.

Other large cities of the Kirov region-Kirovo-Chepetsk, Slobodskaya, Vyatka Polyany, Kotelnich, Omutninsk, Sovetsk. The administrative division of the region includes 24 municipal regions, as well as five cities of regional subordination and one closed administrative-territorial education of federal subordination-Pervomaisky.

The Kirov region borders on nine constituent entities of the Russian Federation (more than any other subject of Russia): in the east with the Perm Territory and Udmurtia, in the north - with the Republic of Komi and the Arkhangelsk region, in the west - with the Vologda, Kostroma and Nizhny Novgorod regions, in the south - in the south with the republics of Mari El and Tatarstan.

It was formed on December 7, 1934 as the Kirov Territory by separation of the Gorky Territory, and from December 5, 1936 in accordance with the new Constitution of the USSR - as the Kirov region. Historically, the region was preceded by the Vyatka province, formed in 1780.

 

Cities

Kirov (Vyatka) - the administrative center of the region.
Slobodskaya - an old merchant city with a holistic preserved historical environment.
Kotelnich is a small city on the Trans -Siberian Highway with a cathedral, the starting point for traveling to the Nurgush Reserve, in the vicinity there is one of the world's largest location of the remains of fossil pariazaurs.
Kirovo-Chepetsk is an industrial city founded under the Soviet Union. Along the city there is one of the few narrow -blade railways preserved in Russia. On it you can get to the Museum of the Railway.
Yaransk is a small city with interesting architecture, including Temple.
Urzhum is the birthplace of the Soviet political figure Sergei Kirov, the Holy Trinity Cathedral should be seen in the city. The people are called the "capital of South Vyatka."
Nolinsk is a city of interesting county architecture. The wealth of the local merchants made it possible to build a large number of unique mansions. The birthplace of the oldest industries - Nolin gingerbread and lemonade.
Sovetsk (Kukarka) - the birthplace of many crafts known in Russia and abroad: Kukar lace, caps of cap, felting valenkov, chill.
Vyatka Polyans - the place of work of the designer of automatic weapons George Shpagin, you can visit museums and see the temple architecture.
Zuevka is a small city on the Trans -Siberian Autonomous Okrug with a memorial museum dedicated to the great Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov, who was born in these places.
Lalsk is a historical merchant city with a well-preserved architectural ensemble of the XVIII-XIX centuries.

 

Other destinations

State natural reserve "Nurgush"
Nizhnevka resort area
The village of Istobensk - the cucumber "capital" of Russia

 

How to get

By train
From Moscow from the Yaroslavl station on trains following to Kirov or Trans -Siberia.

By car
From Moscow along the highway through Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, then through Semenovo, Urens or Yoshkar-Ola to Yaransk. It is possible to get through Kostroma or Vologda, but these routes are worse in terms of distance and quality of roads.

 

Physico and geographical characteristics

Geography

Kirov region, one of the largest in the non-chernozem zone of the Russian Federation, is located in the northeast of the Russian plain in the central-eastern part of European Russia.

The area of the territory is 120 374 km².

 

Relief

The relief of the region is hollowed with a common slope of the surface from the northeast to the south-west. The difference in absolute heights is 281 m (from 56 m to 337 m). In the central part of the region there are Vyatka Vyalya, in the northeast-the Verkhnekamsk Upland, in the north-the northern police.

 

Hydrography

In the region there are almost 20 thousand rivers with a total length of 66.65 thousand km. The northern Uvaly share the rivers of two pools - Severodvinsky and Volzhsky. Most of the region is occupied by the Vyatka River basin, which flows into Kama in Tatarstan. In the Kama in the region, only the upper course is located. Other large -flowing ones within the region include rivers of Molom, Top, Luza, Cobra, Chepz.

The total number of lakes in the region is 4.5 thousand. Together with the ponds, the number of closed reservoirs of the region is 5.5 thousand. The largest lakes: Akshuben - 85 hectares, Oryol - 63 hectares, Moueter - 32 hectares. The deepest reservoir of the region - Lake Lezhninskoye - 36.6 m. A unique Lake Shaitan is located in the Urzhum district.

The high swampy of the northern half of the region is characteristic. In the Verkhnekamsk district, swallowing reaches 40 % of the total area. The largest swamps: Volmenskoye - 13,514 hectares, Salarymyevskoye - 10,556 hectares, Kaisinsky - 10 517 hectares.

 

Climate

The climate is moderately continental. The proximity to the Arctic Ocean determines the possibility of invasion of cold air. Hence severe frosts in winter, frosts and sharp cooling in the summer months.

The average long -term temperature in January: −13.5 ... −15 ° C, July: +18 ... +20 ° C. The absolute maximum temperature reaches +38 ... +40 ° C, the absolute minimum: −45 ... −50 ° C.

On average, a relative humidity in the year is 75–79 %. From October to February, the average monthly humidity is 81-89 %. In the transition months of the year (March, September), it ranges from 74 % to 85 %. The dry air with a moisture content of 61-68 % is in May - June.

The region belongs to the zone of sufficient hydration. Precipitation goes every second day. On average, 500-680 mm falls in the region per year in the region, in the north - 590-680 mm, in the south - 500-550 mm. 60-70 % of precipitation falls on the warm season.

During the year, southwest and southern winds prevail. The average annual wind speed reaches 3-5 m/s. In summer, the winds are weaker (excluding squalls), in the fall increase in the fall and in the cold time they reach the maximum. The wind is usually gusty. Gusts occasionally reach 30-40 m/s, sometimes more.

 

Natural resources

The basis of the natural-resource potential of the region is the forest (mainly coniferous rocks), phosphorites, peats, fur, water and land resources. There is an exceptionally rare Mineral Volkonskit. Torf field deposits are widespread. The reserves of non -metallic mineral raw materials are great: limestone, marls, clays, sand and gravel. In recent decades in the east of the region, minor industrial oil reserves have been identified, as well as bentonite clays deposits. In the Verkhnekamsk district there is the largest in Europe the Vyatka-Kama field of phosphorites. The area is rich in mineral springs and therapeutic mud. In the territory of the Kumyon region there is a well -known resort village of Nizhnevkino, where residents of the Kirov region and other regions of Russia come for treatment and rest.

 

Particularly protected natural territories

There are 197 specially protected natural areas with a total area of 375.6 thousand hectares: the state natural reserve of federal significance “Nurgush”, three state natural reserves of regional significance - “Pizemsky”, “Bylina”, “Bushkovsky forest”, 189 natural monuments, of regional significance, Three medical and health areas. Work is underway to create the National Park "Atar Luke".

 

Ecology

The state of atmospheric air in the Kirov region is stable. The most intensive pollution is noted on the territory of the concentration of industrial enterprises and the intensive movement of vehicles.

The water in the Vyatka River, whose pool occupies most of the region, is characterized by an increased iron content of natural in nature. The highest concentrations of harmful substances are concentrated on the site from the city of Slobodsky to the city of Kirov.

In 2007, a “list of potentially hazardous and critical objects of the Kirov region” was approved, which includes 65 objects, of which 3 chemically hazardous objects of the 3rd class of hazard: a mineral fertilizer factory of the Kirovo-Chepetsk Chemical Culture, a polymers of the Kirovo-Chepetsk chemical plant and a set of objects for the storage and destruction of chemical weapons "Maradykovsky" in the Orichevsky district.

 

History

Early period
Archaeological sites of the Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Ages are known in the Kirov region. The Iron Age began in the Vyatka basin in the 7th century BC. The early Iron Age is represented here by sites of the Ananyino culture (Nagovitsynskoye settlement (Kirov), Pizhemskoye (near Sovetsk), Krivoborskoye (near Prosnitsa), etc.).

The Azelinsky burial ground near the village of Azelino gave its name to the Azelinsky culture of the 3rd-5th centuries. The Suvorovsky burial ground, belonging to the Azelinsky culture, is located in the Urzhumsky district, 1.5 km west of the village of Suvorovo.

The first nationalities formed in the Vyatka land in the 7th-10th centuries. By the beginning of the 2nd millennium AD, the Mari, Udmurt, and Komi tribes had formed. A network of Udmurt settlements appeared throughout the Upper Kama interfluve, concentrated around two centers - first the southern (the right bank of the middle Kama), and then the northern (the area between the Cheptsa River and the middle Vyatka), where the Udmurts moved, which later became the basis for the future city of Khlynov.

Home crafts were significantly developed in the settlements: woodworking, production of woolen and linen fabrics, fur products, iron and copper tools and weapons, pottery, bone products, women's jewelry, etc. The first craftsmen-specialists appeared, including metallurgists, foundry workers, jewelers, blacksmiths, potters, furriers.

Trade relations began to develop, trade links were established with Russia, the Khazar Khaganate and the Volga-Bulgarian Khanate. However, this trade was one-sided: foreign merchants, using the trade route along the Kama and Vyatka known to them, connecting the Volga region with the Urals and the lands of the North, penetrated into the settlements of the Udmurts and Mari and bought honey, furs, skins, wax and other goods from them in exchange for gold and silver products, weapons, silk fabrics and other valuables.

In the socio-political sense, the process of disintegration of the patriarchal-clan system began in these territories, a clan-tribal nobility began to form, property inequality arose, which laid the foundation for the formation of classes of feudal lords, peasants and serfs. Volga Bulgaria and Rus' had a great economic and cultural influence on the Mari and Udmurts.

 

Colonization of the Vyatka region, the foundation of the city of Khlynov (12th-14th centuries)

The penetration of the Slavs into the Vyatka basin began in the second half of the 12th century. The Yemanaevsky burial ground stands out for its archaic burial rite and the preservation of pagan remnants. The oldest Slavic settlements are found on the Vyatka between Kotelnich and Slobodskoy, where several settlements are known: Kotelnichskoye, Kovrovskoye, Orlovskoye, Nikulitskoye, Khlynovskoye, etc. The influx of Slavs especially increased in connection with the Mongol-Tatar invasion in the middle of the 13th century. According to archaeological data, they were immigrants from the southwest of Kievan Rus and, possibly, Rus from the territory of Volga Bulgaria and Vyatichi from the Oka. A little later, settlers from the Novgorod lands appeared on the Vyatka, they came along the Northern Dvina, Moloma, and also from the Vladimir-Suzdal Principality along the Volga, Unzha, Vetluga to Moloma. Both streams of settlers came to the middle Vyatka, and populated its banks from Moloma to Letka.

Local written legends tell of the arrival of two detachments of Novgorodians to Vyatka. According to legend, in 1181 a detachment of Novgorodians captured the "Bolvansky town", which was inhabited by "Otyaks and Chud", standing on the right bank of the Vyatka near the Cheptsa River, settled in it, and renamed it Nikulitsyn. Another detachment captured the town of Koksharov, renaming it Kotelnich. After an unspecified time, both detachments united and created a common city of Khlynov.

And having chosen a beautiful place above the Vyatka River near the mouth of the Khlynovitsa River on a high mountain, which is now called Kikimorskaya, for it is a convenient place for common settlement and from that mountain there are glorious springs of water flowing many.

And by common consent, at the appointed time, many Novgorod people came together on that mountain and began to build a place for the city and to prepare trees for the construction of the city. And when they arose in the morning, they found that by God's providence all the preparations had been moved down the Vyatka River to a higher, more spacious place and a wide field, which at that time was called Balyaskove Pole. The Novgorodians with all their retinue prayed to the Lord God and His Mother of God, the Most Holy Theotokos, for the indication of a place for the construction of the city, sending up praise and singing prayers.

"And at that place they first built a church in the name of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord and built a city and called it Khlynov City for the sake of the Khlynovitsa River."

Mass migration to the territory of the Vyatka region began after the Tatar-Mongol invasion: people, fleeing from the destructive invasion, moved further north. Soon, a large number of people from the Novgorod, Ustyug, Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod lands were concentrated in the region. Craftsmen and warriors, they settled mainly in large cities and villages.

In 1374, a detachment of Novgorod ushkuiniks on 90 ushkuis (large river vessels) made a campaign against Volga Bulgaria, which was part of the Golden Horde at that time. After a successful raid on the capital, the city of Bulgar, the detachment split into two groups, one on 50 ships went down the Kama to the capital of the Golden Horde, the other moved up, plundering local Mari and Chuvash settlements along the way, reached the mouth of the Vetluga River, here the Novgorodians burned their ships and rode on horseback along the bank of the Vetluga to Vyatka, reached Khlynov, where they remained:

In the summer of 6882 (1374) the Ushkuynians went down the Vyatka River, 90 Ushkuynians, and plundered Vyatka and took the Bulgars on their way.

There is much evidence that some of the Ushkuynians settled on Vyatka, although there is no reason to attribute the beginning of the Slavic colonization of the region to them.

 

1378-1489

In 1378, with the mediation of the Vyatka diocese, under an agreement between the Vyatka nobility and the Suzdal-Nizhny Novgorod prince Dmitry Konstantinovich, the Vyatka land formally became his patrimony. In 1383, after the prince's death, an internecine war for the inheritance broke out in the Suzdal-Nizhny Novgorod principality between the sons of the deceased prince, Semyon and Vasily (nicknamed Kirdyapa), on the one hand, and their uncle, Prince Boris Konstantinovich, who owned Nizhny Novgorod as a vassal of his brother, on the other. Ultimately, Boris Konstantinovich got the Nizhny Novgorod principality, and Semyon and Vasily retained the Suzdal principality and the Vyatka land. In 1391, the Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily I obtained a yarlyk from the Khan of the Golden Horde Tokhtamysh for reigning in the Suzdal-Nizhny Novgorod Principality and annexed its territory to Moscow. And if Nizhny Novgorod itself gave up its leader Boris Konstantinovich, unpopular with the people, then the Suzdal princes put up stubborn resistance to Moscow. They managed to get help from the new Khan of the Golden Horde, who replaced Tokhtamysh, expelled from there by the famous conqueror Tamerlane. The Khan sent them a Tatar regiment led by Khan Eityak. Despite this, the Suzdal princes suffered a complete defeat, and by agreement with Vasily I, the Suzdal Principality was annexed to Moscow, and Semyon Dmitrievich and Vasily Kirdyapa retained the Vyatka land. Soon they both died. Vasily I annexed Vyatka to Moscow and handed it over to his brother Yuri Dmitrievich, who owned the Galician Principality.

After the death of Vasily I in 1425, his son Vasily II inherited the Moscow throne, although by right of ancestral seniority, Moscow should have been given to the deceased's brother Yuri Dmitrievich Galitsky, a conflict was brewing between the Galician and Moscow princes. Military actions continued for 20 years (from 1432 to 1453). After the death of Yuri Dmitrievich in 1434, his sons Vasily Kosoy and Dmitry Shemyaka continued his work. The Vyatka regiments were the main support of the Galician princes (campaign of 1436).

In 1452, the Galician group was defeated, the city of Galich was destroyed by Moscow troops, Vasily and Dmitry Yuryevich died. The Vyatka boyars and merchants took power in Vyatka, the zemstvo (elected) governor Yakov became the mayor, in 1455 a wooden Kremlin with wide earthen ramparts and a moat was built in Vyatka, named Khlynov after the Khlynovitsa River flowing nearby. The construction was completed two years later.

In 1457, Grand Duke Vasily II sent his army against Khlynov, but failed to take the new fortified Kremlin, and after two months the army retreated back to Moscow. In 1459, Vasily made a second attempt to take the city, after a long siege, the Khlynovites decided to surrender. The Vyatka land became part of the Moscow Principality, but retained a local elected administration under the supervision of the Moscow governor.

In 1489, a huge 60,000-strong army was sent to Vyatka, independence was liquidated, and part of the population (the best people) was taken to Moscow. The region, divided into counties, was governed by sent governors: Slobodskoy, Khlynovsky, Orlovsky and Kotelnichsky. However, for about another hundred years, Vyatka partially retained its former freedoms. Vyatka residents participated in military campaigns against Kazan and other opponents of Moscow.

 

Russian Empire

In 1727, the Khlynovskaya province was transferred from the Siberian province of the Moscow district to the Kazan province. On December 18, 1780, by decree of Empress Catherine II, the Khlynovsky viceroyalty was formed, which in 1796 was transformed into the Vyatka province, and the city of Khlynov was renamed the city of Vyatka.

Vyatka province was among 17 regions recognized as having suffered severely during the famine of 1891-1892.

 

USSR

In 1918, the Soviet district was formed in the Vyatka province.
In 1919, the North-Vyatka mining district was formed, which existed for 1 year.
In 1920, the Yelabuga, Sarapul and Glazovsky districts, as well as parts of the Malmyzhsky, Urzhumsky and Yaransky districts, went to the Perm province, the Tatar ASSR, the Votsk and Mari Autonomous Okrugs.
In 1921, the Omutninsky district was formed.
In 1923, the Oryol district was renamed the Khalturinsky district.
In 1924, the Soviet district was abolished, and in 1928, the Urzhumsky district, with its territory transferred to the Nolinsky and Malmyzhsky districts.
In 1929, the Vyatka Governorate and all its districts were abolished, and their territory became part of the Nizhny Novgorod Region of the RSFSR.
On July 15, 1929, the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod Region became part of the newly created Nizhny Novgorod Region with the administrative center in Nizhny Novgorod.
On October 7, 1932, in connection with the renaming of Nizhny Novgorod to Gorky, the Nizhny Novgorod Region was renamed the Gorky Region.
On December 5, 1934, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee decided to rename the then district center of Vyatka to Kirov.
On December 7, 1934, a new Kirov Region was separated from the eastern and northeastern regions of the Gorky Region and the western regions of the Sverdlovsk Region (Sarapul and Votkinsk Districts), including the Udmurt Autonomous Okrug.
On December 28, 1934, the Udmurt Autonomous Okrug, which was part of the Kirov region, was transformed into the Udmurt ASSR. On December 5, 1936, the Udmurt ASSR was separated from the Kirov region, and the Kirov region itself was transformed into the Kirov Oblast.

 

Government

The system of state authorities of the Kirov region is formed (according to the charter of the region):
Governor of the Kirov region - the highest official of the region;
The Legislative Assembly of the Kirov Region is the highest and only legislative (representative) body of state power of the region;
The Government of the Kirov Region is the highest executive body of state power of the Kirov region;
Other executive bodies of the Kirov region, formed by the Legislative Assembly and the Government of the region in accordance with the charter and laws of the region.

In accordance with the Charter, justice in the Kirov region is carried out:
Kirov Regional Court;
Arbitration court of the Kirov region;
district (city) courts;
The authorized court of the Kirov region (was not formed);
other courts created in the region in accordance with federal law;
magistrate.

 

Population

Over the XX and XXI centuries, the share of the population of the Vyatka Territory in the population of Russia, which was 4.2 %at the end of the 19th century, decreased to less than 0.8 %. The population of the region according to Rosstat is 1,138,112 people. (2023). The population density is 9.45 people/km2 (2023). The urban population is 78.7 % (2022).

The national composition of the population
According to the 2010 population census:
Russians - 1 199 691 people,
Tatars - 36,457 people,
Mari - 29 598 people,
Udmurts - 13,639 people,
Ukrainians - 7718 people,
Persons who did not indicate nationality - 35,585 people.

 

Economy

Industry

The main industries: mechanical engineering and metalworking; non-ferrous and ferrous metallurgy, chemical, microbiological, forest, woodworking and pulp-paper, light, food industry, peat.

 

Energy

As of the beginning of 2020, 5 thermal power plants and one small hydroelectric power station with a total capacity of 972.55 MW were operated in the Kirov region. In 2019, they produced 4309.1 million kWh of electricity.

 

Agriculture

As of January 1, 2021, the rural population was 272,610 people, or 22 % of the population of the Kirov region.

The leading commodity industry in agricultural production is livestock, mainly a dairy-and-subject direction. The main agricultural crops grown: grain, potatoes, linen and vegetables. In the structure of grain, winter rye and faraway crops prevail. Agricultural production provides the food security of the region. Up to 20 % of livestock products are exported outside the region, mainly to the northern regions of the country.

 

Livestock

The leading direction of the industry remains milk cattle breeding. Gross milk yield in 2020 750 thousand tons or 104 % to the level of 2019. On average, 7950 kg of milk is necessary from a cow in agricultural surgives of the region. 85 thousand tons were slaughter and poultry, 619 million eggs were obtained, which is 14 % more than a year earlier. The number of breeding cows of the dairy direction of productivity is 67 % of the total number of livestock in agricultural explosions of the region (34 % in Russia). Implemented 4.8 thousand heads of milk breeding young animals, 65 % outside the Kirov region.

As of June 1, 2021, there were 246.8 thousand heads of cattle (-0.3 %) in farms of all categories, including 101.8 thousand cows (+1.6 %), 238.4 thousand heads of pigs ( +14.6 %), 52.2 thousand sheep and goats (+0.1 %), 2844.1 thousand bird heads (+6.8 %).

In 2021, 733.6 thousand tons of cow's milk were produced in the agricultural expenses of the Kirov region, which is 3.4%higher than 2020. In the production of milk in agricultural exploration, fifth place in the Russian Federation. In 2021, 8040 kilograms of milk from one cow were needed in agricultural experts (in 2010 - 4820, in 2015 - 6536 kilograms).

 

Crop production

In 2022, farmers gathered a record crop of grain. 309.2 thousand hectares of grain and grain -combat crops are threshed, 825.8 thousand tons of grain were pounded, with a yield of 26.7 kg/ha.

In 2020, the gross harvest of grain and grain -combat crops amounted to 740 thousand tons, with a yield of 24.7 kg/ha (in 2019 730 thousand tons, yield of 26.1 c/ha). 299 thousand hectares are threshed.

 

Transport

In Kirov, there is a civilian airport Problovo. 25 km from Kirov is the landing site of Kuchana, designed to receive and issue aircraft of small aircraft. Airline Vyatkaavia is based on the landing site

The main passenger move of the Trans -Siberian Railway passes through the Kirov region, also a line connecting the northern regions with Central Russia Kirov - Kotlas. The total length of the railways is 1098 km.

A network of roads with solid coating with a length of 9086 km. The territory of the Kirov region pass the federal roads of the P176 and P243, which have access to the Komi Republic, the Kostroma region, the Perm Territory, the Republic of Chuvashia and Mari El. The A123 highway connects the region with the Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions. At the same time, there is a need to build roads connecting the Kirov region with other subjects of the Federation. So, there is still no road surface on the border of the Kirov region and Udmurtia along the road of Kirov-Glazov-Perm, which is why the profitable transport road is practically not used.

The main water line is the Vyatka River. The length of the operated waterways along Vyatka and its tributaries is 1800 km.

In connection with the development of peat domestic, in the region a network of narrow -gauge railways was built:

 

Culture

In the region there are 3.5 thousand monuments of history, culture and architecture, 883 monuments of archeology, urban planning and architecture, history and art were placed on state protection.

In the region there are 817 public (publicly accessible) libraries, 40 museums (literary houses-museums by A. S. Green and M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, local history, ethnographic, natural scientific, memorial and industry), several exhibition halls, more than 800 cultural institutions .

 

Competitions and festivals

In Kirov and the regions are regularly held:
All -Russian dance holiday for the prize of the People's Artist of the Russian Federation, professor, academician V. M. Zakharov,
All -Russian competition of masters of the artistic word "My Russia",
Interregional festival of national cultures "Firebird",
International Musical Festival "Vyatka Spring"
Open festival of social film and television programs "Vyatka",
All -Russian festival of modern man -made toy,
All -Russian Vasnetsovsky openier,
The festival of the author's song "Greenland",
Festival of folk crafts and crafts "Vyatka bastard",
"Istobensky cucumber" - a festival of folk art and humor.

 

Folk crafts

The region is famous for artistic folk crafts: Dymkovo painted clay toy, kapornya products, straws, pine root, wood, vine, Vyatka lace, flax products with traditional embroidery, ceramics.

 

Vyatka dialects

Belong to the North Russian dialect. Vyatka dialects are heterogeneous, which is explained by the different time of the settlements of the Vyatka land by the Russians and the nature of interaction with local non -Slavic dialects. The massive settlement of the Vyatka River basin began relatively late, in the second half of the XIV century, although the penetration of a few groups of Slavs into this territory could be much earlier. The main core of Russian immigrants on Vyatka during its early development was made up by Novgorodians and immigrants from the Novgorod northern colonies. The indigenous population of the Vyatka lands were various Finno-Ugric tribes-the ancestors of the Udmurts, Komi, Marie, and in the south-Turkic. Thus, the Russian dialects of the Vyatka Territory were formed in interaction with local Finno-Ugric, as well as Turkic languages (primarily Tatar). The ancient Novgorod dialect on Vyatka was changed and began to differ significantly from the maternal. The originality of the formation of Vyatka dialects lies in the fact that for a long time they almost did not interact with the Russian dialects of other areas, which is explained by historical conditions. In the pre -revolutionary period, the influence of the literary language was insignificant on peasant dialects. The combination of these two factors explains the originality of many phonetic, morphological and syntactic features of local dialects, and some of these features are very ancient, inherent in the Old Russian language.

In the field of phonetics have the following features:
The opposition (contrast) of brief and long sounds (both vowels and consonants) as a result of simplification of the groups of consonants and the loss of the iot (for example, “Delaiat” - “Makes,“ Kh. ” - tail);
The pronunciation of the soft “p” in front of the posterior consonants (quarters, cf. Russian lit. “Thursday”);
the presence of primordially soft hissing (w, w, h) and c (in other North Russian dialects they hardened);
The pronunciation e, as well as between the soft consonants in the place of the place (Nidil, cf. the Russian lit. "Week").

Vyatka dialects have the following morphological features:
a mixture of the ends of the dative and creative cases of plural nouns and adjectives;
a mixture of the ends of adjective and local cases in the male and middle gender of the only number;
The presence of postpositive particles consistent with the kind, number and case with nouns.

 

Religion

The largest religious community of the region is the Orthodox (Vyatka diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church). There is a noticeable number of Old Believers, especially in the northeast (Omutninsky, Afanasyevsky districts) and in the south of the region.

In the southern regions of the region, bordering the Republic of Tatarstan, the Sunni Islam (the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Kirov Region) was distributed. Bright also include Armenian and Jewish religious communities.

The new religious movements are represented by the communities of witnesses of Jehovah, Christian gospel (Pentecostals), Christian-baptists.

 

Education

In the region there are 11 institutions (together with branches) of higher professional education (data as of August 16, 2016), 97 institutions of primary and secondary vocational education, 755 schools, 530 institutions of preschool education, 135 institutions of additional education of children.

 

Famous People

Personalities of the Kirov Region
Heads of the Kirov Region
Honorary Citizens of the Kirov Region
List of Kirov Residents — Heroes of the Soviet Union
List of Kirov Residents — Heroes of the Russian Federation
List of Kirov Residents — Full Cavaliers of the Order of Glory
Heroes of Socialist Labor of the Kirov Region

About Famous Natives of the Vyatka Province:
Natives of the Kirov Region
Bakulev Alexander Nikolaevich — Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, cardiac surgeon. The National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery named after A.N. Bakulev bears his name.
Balakhnicheva Natalia Gennadyevna (born 1974) — Russian ballerina, prima of the Kremlin Ballet Theater, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
The Vasnetsov brothers: Viktor Mikhailovich (1848-1926) and Apollinary Mikhailovich (1856-1933) are famous artists and painters, masters of historical and folklore painting. Viktor Mikhailovich created the paintings: "The Knight at the Crossroads" (1882), "After the Battle of Igor Svyatoslavich with the Polovtsians" (1880), "Alyonushka" (1881), "Ivan Tsarevich on the Gray Wolf" (1889), "Bogatyrs" (1881-1898), "Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible" (1897). Belyaev Evgeny Prokopyevich (1954-2003) - skier, Olympic champion, winner of gold and silver medals at the World Championship
Butorin Tikhon Ivanovich (1896-1958) - Soviet military leader, Major General of Aviation (1940).
Vershinin Konstantin Andreevich (1900-1973) - Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR.
Govorov Leonid Aleksandrovich (1897-1955) - Marshal of the Soviet Union, 1st Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces of the USSR.
Green Alexander Stepanovich (1880-1932) - Russian and Soviet writer, poet. Author of the famous extravaganza "Scarlet Sails".
Domnina Oksana Aleksandrovna (born 1984) - Russian figure skater (ice dancing), world champion.
Dorofeev Anatoly Vasilyevich (1920-2000) - Colonel, Hero of Russia.
Zagarskikh Aleksey Vladimirovich (born 1975) - Russian and Kazakhstani bandy player, Master of Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan of international class, midfielder of the Kazakhstan national team and Ulyanovsk "Volga", bronze medalist of the World Championship (2003, 2005, 2013).
Popshoi Mikhail Ivanovich (born 1987) - Moldovan politician and statesman. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova since January 29, 2024.
Kirov (Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich (1886-1934) - Soviet statesman, First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the CPSU, whose murder was the beginning of the "Great Terror" of the 1930s. in the Soviet Union, born in Urzhum.
Vladimir Nikolaevich Krupin (born 1941) - Russian and Soviet writer, secretary of the board of the Union of Writers of Russia, editor-in-chief of the literary and journalistic magazine "Moscow".
Ivan Stepanovich Konev (1897-1973) - Marshal of the Soviet Union, 1st Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR.
Albert Anatolyevich Likhanov (1935-2021) - Russian and Soviet children's writer, chairman of the board of the Russian Children's Fund.
Ovidy Mikhailovich Lyubovikov (1924-1995) - front-line poet, writer and journalist, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, chairman of the regional organization of the Union of Writers (1966-1988).
Maltsev Aleksandr Nikolaevich (born 1949) — Soviet hockey player, forward, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, 2-time Olympic champion, 9-time world champion, one of the most technical hockey players in the history of world hockey.
Mashkovtsev Nikolai Georgievich (1887-1962) — Russian and Soviet art critic, deputy director of the State Tretyakov Gallery.
Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (1890-1986) — Soviet politician and statesman, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.
Muminova Farida Shamilevna (born 1957) — film and theater actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2002), leading actress of the Magnitogorsk Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin, A. Dzhigarkhanyan Studio Theater (Moscow).
Myshkin Vladimir Semenovich (born 1955) - Soviet ice hockey player, goalkeeper, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Olympic champion, 6-time world champion.
Obukhov Sergey Gennadyevich (born 1974) - Russian ice hockey player (bandy), Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation, 5-time world champion, 5-time World Cup winner.
Savinykh Viktor Petrovich (born 1940) - Soviet cosmonaut, 50th cosmonaut of the USSR and 100th - of the Earth.
Samsonov Alexey Mikhailovich (born 1957) - prosecutor of the Kaliningrad region, prosecutor of the Republic of Kalmykia.
Sannikov Grigory Alexandrovich (1899-1969) - Soviet poet, friend of Andrei Bely.
Sitnikov Vladimir Arsentyevich (born 1949) - Russian Soviet writer. Chairman of the Board of the Kirov Regional Branch of the Union of Writers of Russia (since 1988).
Yuri Georgievich Skobov (born 1930) — Soviet skier, Olympic champion, silver medalist of the World Championship.
Andrei Viktorovich Trefilov (born 1969) — Russian hockey player, goalkeeper, Honored Master of Sports of the Russian Federation, Olympic champion, world champion.
Margarita Petrovna Chebysheva (1932-2014) — Russian Soviet and Russian poet, teacher, member of the Union of Writers of the USSR.

 

Exiles, prisoners and evacuees

Ancharov Arkady Aleksandrovich — member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Russian revolutionary. In Vyatka exile in 1923-1926.
Bauman Nikolay Ernestovich — Russian revolutionary, activist of the Bolshevik wing of the RSDLP, in Vyatka exile in 1899.
Borovoy Aleksey Alekseevich — Russian philosopher, economist, theorist of anarchism. In Vyatka exile in 1929-1932.
Vitberg Aleksandr Lavrentyevich — creator of the propylaeum of the Alexander Garden, architect of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Vyatka.
Herzen Aleksandr Ivanovich — writer, publicist, philosopher, revolutionary. In Vyatka exile in 1835-1837.
Ginzburg Aleksandr Ilyich — journalist, publisher. Served his term in the "mixed zone" in Vyatlag.
Dzerzhinsky Felix Edmundovich - Polish-Russian revolutionary, served his exile in 1898-1899, first in Nolinsk, and then in the village of Kai, from where he escaped.
Kibrik Boris Samoilovich - member of the RSDLP since 1903, participant in the Ufa Conference and Komuch (in 1923-1924 he was in exile in Vyatka and in the city of Slobodskoy in the Vyatka province).
Lokerman Alexander Samoilovich - member of the RSDLP since 1898, Menshevik, sent into exile to Vyatka in December 1923, where he remained until June 1926. Nikiforov-Volgin Vasily Akimovich - Russian-Estonian writer, after the annexation of Estonia in 1940, he was sent into exile on May 24, 1941, and on December 14, 1941, he was sentenced to death.
Okada Yoshiko - Japanese actress, prisoner of Vyatlag.
Archimandrite Pavel (Gruzdev) - Archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church, elder. From 1941 to 1947, he was in Vyatlag (Kaisky District, Volosnitsa settlement).
Pavlenkov Florenty Fyodorovich - a major book publisher (in exile in Vyatka from 1869 to 1877). While in exile in Vyatka, he compiled the "Visual ABC for Teaching and Self-Teaching Literacy" (22 editions were published), which received an honorable mention at the International Pedagogical Conference in Vienna in 1873.
Janis Rainis - Latvian poet and playwright. He was in exile in Slobodskoy in 1899-1903.
Romanov Vasily Nikitich - brother of Patriarch Filaret Romanov and uncle of the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich. He was exiled to the city of Yaransk in 1601.
Saltykov-Shchedrin Mikhail Evgrafovich - Russian writer.
Streltsov Eduard Anatolyevich - Soviet football player, Olympic champion. He served his sentence in penal colony No. 5 in Kirovo-Chepetsk.
Chaikin Vadim Afanasyevich - politician, member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. In Vyatka exile from June to December 1928.
Upit Andrey Martynovich - Latvian prose writer. Was in Kirov during evacuation in 1941-1944.