Year founded: 1909
Nurlat
Nurlat
- a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Nurlatsky district of Tatarstan. The city is located on a tributary of the Volga, the Kondurcha River, 224 km from Kazan.
According to scientists from the Institute of History and Archeology, ancient settlements on the territory of the Nurlat region existed already in the Stone Age, during the Paleolithic. The largest of them are Novoalmetyevskoye and Novoamzinskoye, and in the third millennium BC Kiekle and Kizlyau arose.
Already in the 7th-9th centuries, the Bulgars built their cities and villages here. They founded the villages of Bilyar-Ozero, Krivoe Ozero, and Chulpanovo. A fertile climate, fertile chernozem soils, rich meadows and forests - life in the region was well-fed and calm. After the conquest of the Kazan Khanate by Ivan the Terrible in 1552, many defenders of Kazan found refuge in these parts.
Nurlat - radiant horse Back in the 19th century there was a village of Nurlaty, the name of which came from Nurly At - Nurly (Radiant), At (Horse).
The settlement of Nurlat as a station on the Simbirsk-Ufa railway line officially appeared on maps of Russia in 1911. But it was founded in 1905 as a station village in connection with the construction of the railway. Here, to the site of the future regional center, two families of railway workers arrived in 1909 and began to lay a local piece of the railway line. Construction of the station began with the construction of a booth near the semaphore.
In the “Memorial Book of the Samara Province” for 1910 it is written: “ Currently, a new rail track is being built, which will serve as a continuation of the Volga-Bugulma railway and connect the cities of Bugulma and Simbirsk. The new rail track, passing through rich commercial and industrial areas, where until now there was only horse transport, will significantly increase trade and economic well-being of the population
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Modern youth center
In those days they worked only with the help of shovels and horses, but they built roads quickly; the new railway was ready within two years. On August 28, 1911, the first train passed here. Then houses appeared along the railway station, water pumps, and the first depot building.
The First World War and the years of the Civil War led the railway to a state of complete neglect. It took years to restore, but the efforts and dedication of people yielded results.
The updated Volga-Bugulma road was connected to the Samara-Zlatoust highway. In 1938, the station village became a workers' village, and in 1961 a city. By this time, the road had switched to electric and diesel traction. The first diesel locomotive passed through Nurlat in July 1962.
On December 10, 1997, by decision of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan, the city of Nurlat was classified as a city of republican subordination. So Nurlat has come a long way from a trackman’s booth to a modern city.
The population of the city is more than 32 thousand people (2020).
Day of the city
in Nurlat it is celebrated in the fall.
