Kimry
Kimry () is a town in the south of
Tver Oblast,
Russia. It is located at , on the
Volga River, at its confluence with the
Kimerka River, 133 km east of
Tver. Population: 53,650 (
2002 Census); 61,800 (
1992 est.).
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 right-bank part of Kimry, known as
Savyolovo, started to develop in
1901, when a railway connected the place to Moscow. Kimry was granted the status of town 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 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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