Mendeleyevsky District
Mendeleyevsky District
Менделеевский район | |
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| Other transcription(s) | |
| • Tatar | Менделеевск районы |
Kama River, Mendeleyevsky District | |
Location of Mendeleyevsky District in the Republic of Tatarstan | |
| Coordinates: 55°58′N 52°22′E / 55.967°N 52.367°E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Republic of Tatarstan |
| Established | 1930 |
| Administrative center | Mendeleyevsk |
| Area | |
• Total | 746.4 km2 (288.2 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 30,377 |
| • Density | 41/km2 (110/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 72.7% |
| • Rural | 27.3% |
| Administrative structure | |
| • Inhabited localities | 1 cities/towns, 35 rural localities |
| Municipal structure | |
| • Municipally incorporated as | Mendeleyevsky Municipal District |
| • Municipal divisions | 1 urban settlements, 14 rural settlements |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (MSK ) |
| OKTMO ID | 92639000 |
| Website | http://mendeleevsk.tatarstan.ru/ |
Mendeleyevsky District (Russian: Менделе́евский райо́н; Tatar: Менделеев районы) is a territorial administrative unit and municipal district of the Republic of Tatarstan within the Russian Federation. The district is located on the right bank of the Kama and on the Toyma River (a tributary of the Kama), 238 kilometers from Kazan. The administrative center of the district is Mendeleyevsk. At the beginning of 2020, the population of the district was 30,064.
The first settlements on the territory of the modern Mendeleevsky region appeared in the 17th century. The main impetus for the development of the region was the creation by Kapiton Ushkov in 1868 of a chemical plant, which for 2020 is a city-forming enterprise.
In 2019, TASED was created in Mendeleevsk, it became the fifth such industrial park in the Republic of Tatarstan. In 2020 the TASED counted six companies are residents.