Kimry
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Kimry (Russian: Кимры) is a town in the south of Tver Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Volga River, at its confluence with the Kimrka River, 133 km east of Tver. Population: 50,500 (2006); 53,650 (2002 Census); 61,800 (1992 est.). It is served by Kimry Airport.
[edit] History
Kimry was first documentally mentioned in 1546, as a busy shoemaking and trade village of the left bank of the Volga (a shoe appears of the town's coat of arms). The district of Kimry at the right bank of the Volga, known as Savyolovo, started to develop in 1901, when a railway connected the place to Moscow. Kimry was granted town status in 1917. A number of old wooden buildings and churches still present in Kimry.
Kimry is the birthplace of Russian writer Alexander Fadeyev.
There are theories[weasel words] on whether the name Kimry is related to the Cimbri (a proto-Germanic tribe) as the town actually lies along the general path the Cimbri tribes might have travelled some time before 100 BCE on their way towards the south.
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